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Q. Did he ask you why you had not been to see the Inspector?

A. He did.

Q. Did you tell him you had been to the Branch Office, and waited for the Inspector, but he had not turned up?

A. I did.

Q. Did the interpreter then say to you that it was not the Branch Office that the Inspector wanted you to go to?

A. He did.

Q. But that the office he referred to was the Inspector's own house?

A. Yes.

Q. Did this Inspector at that time live at 28 Elgin Street 2nd floor?

A. Yes.

Q. And did you go there, about 4 o'clock the same afternoon?

A. I did.

Q. Did you wait there for a short time?

A. I did.

Q. Then did the Inspector and the interpreter arrive?

A. Yes.

Q. Did the Inspector tell you, through the interpreter, that your limewashing work was not properly done?

A. Yes.

Q. Were you also asked if you were aware of the usual custom of paying 20 cents a floor to the Inspector for such work?

A. I was.

Q. Did you reply that you could not afford to pay that?

A. I did.

Q. Because you got the work at only 90 cents a floor?

A. I did.

Q. Then did some conversation pass between Kelly and the Interpreter in English, that you did not understand?

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