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SELLERS
[Yes,] if you want to—
DUFFER
That will do Colonel Sellers, that will do.
(To DISTRICT ATTORNEY.)
Take the witness, sir.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
(Rises, looks at SELLERS,
puts chair back.)Colonel Sellers, do you know the prisoner?
(SELLERS turns from him in contempt.)
Do you know Miss Laura Hawkins?
SELLERS
[Know her], That's a pretty question to ask me!
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Never mind [what kind of question that is to ask you, Colonel Sellers, but simply answer it. Do you know Laura Hawkins?]
SELLERS
Do I know her? I've known her ever since she was so high.
(Putting hand two or three feet from floor.)
I may be her father for all I know.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Ha! Ha! Ha! You're not quite certain my dear Colonel, the fact of it is, your little [gallivantries] have been so numerous you—
SELLERS
[(Earnestly.)]Stop! sir. Stop! sir. That was a mere figure of speech innocently uttered. Don't you put a base construction upon it, it would [not] become you as a gentleman to do it—it would not become me as a gentleman to permit it, sir.
UNCLE DANIEL
(Among the visitors.)O, golly. Ha! Ha! Ha! The old man had him
(whew)
had him there!
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