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 "Take the witness," said Steve with a wave of his hand.

"How did you know it was Mr. Graham?" asked General Johnson.

"I seed 'im wid my own eyes."

"He wore a complete disguise, did he not?"

"Yassah, but I seed 'im all de same."

"You could see through the mask?"

"I seed 'im—I done tole ye!"

"Answer my question," sternly commanded the lawyer. "Could you see his face through the mask?"

"Nasah."

"Then how did you recognise him?"

"He tuck it off ter scratch his head, sah, an' I see his face. I knowed it wuz him all de time fo' I see his face."

Ackerman whispered to the lawyer.

"Did you tell Mr. Ackerman, Uncle Isaac, that, as you started to run away from the masqueraders that night, you saw John Graham at your gate—ran into him?"

"Nasah, I nebber say no sech thing!" Isaac shouted, glaring and shaking his head at Ackerman.

"Didn't you tell the same gentleman that later in the evening you saw John Graham seated on a rustic near the house watching it from the outside?"