He attached
great importance to my direct evidence, and we underlined the parts I was
to be particularly strong upon. That I had taken great pains to prepare
complete and accurate evidence I need scarcely say, for, as I have stated
before, if there is any kind of work I have liked more than another, and
into which I have always put my heart and soul, it is this kind. After
we had got through I was cross-examined by eight opposing counsel,
including Pope, Pember, Balfour Browne and Seymour Bushe. One of the
very few things connected with my appearance in the case I have preserved
(and this I have kept from vanity, I suppose) is a newspaper cutting
which says, "In cross-examination Mr. Pope could not get a single point
out of Mr. Tatlow. On the contrary it actually made his case stronger.
His evidence from beginning to end was most masterly. It was the
evidence of a man who knew what he was talking about and who told the
truth. Mr. Pope, in the end, agreed with Mr. Tatlow's statement on
running powers." Mr. Pope was a big, generous-minded man. In the course
of his great speech on the case he paid me the very nice compliment of
saying that, "Mr.
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