overruled it.

"I did not say it threw the axe. I did not see it thrown. I felt
it."

"Did you know the first mate, Singleton, before you met on the Ella?"

"Yes, sir."

"Where?"

"We were on the same vessel two years ago, the American, for Bermuda."

"Were you friends?"

"Yes"--very low.

"Were you engaged to marry him at one time?"

"Yes."

"Why did you break it off?"

"We differed about a good many things."

After a long battle, the prosecuting attorney was allowed to show
that, following the breaking off of her relations with Singleton,
she had been a witness against him in an assault-and-battery case,
and had testified to his violence of temper. The dispute took so
long that there was only time for her cross-examination. The