Greenough smiled drily.
“That’s a pretty strong defense, considering that you haven’t been accused,” he said. “As a matter of fact, we hadn’t found your fountain pen, Mr. Porter. I’m afraid we overlooked something there!”…
Since they have gone, I feel, although he has not said so, that Halliday believes I have made a tactical error. And I dare say, in one way, I may have. I have given my defense to the opposition, and not only that; I realize that my list of witnesses is painfully weak; my wife, my niece’s lover, and Peter Geiss!
And Peter Geiss, by local repute, is, like some of the weak sisters of the world, to be bought with a price.…
Nevertheless, I feel a great sense of relief. I have at least made a hole in that web of circumstantial evidence which has seemed to be closing around
