O'Moy's eyes gleamed. "All of them?"

"Certainly, sir, all of them."

"You are quite certain of that?"

"Oh, quite certain, sir. If a light had shown from one of them I
couldn't have failed to notice it."

"That will do."

"Captain Tremayne - " began the president.

"I have no questions for the witness, sir," Tremayne announced.

Sir Harry's face expressed surprise. "After the statement he has
just made?" he exclaimed, and thereupon he again invited the prisoner,
in a voice that was as grave as his countenance, to cross-examine
he witness; he did more than invite - he seemed almost to plead.
But Tremayne, preserving by a miracle his outward calm, for all that
inwardly he was filled with despair and chagrin to see what a pit
he had dug for himself by his falsehood, declined to ask any
questions.

Private Bates retired, and Mullins was recalled. A gloom seemed to
have settled now upon the court. A moment ago their way had seemed
fairly clear to its members, and they had been inwardly
congratulating themselves that they were relieved from the grim
necessity of passing sentence upon a brother officer esteemed by all
who knew him. But now a subtle change had crept in. The statement