Chapter 21There were a good many more questions and answers, but the result was the same. In a perfectly deliberate manner John Higgins stuck to it that somewhere about eleven o’clock he had stood under Eily Fogarty’s window and talked to her for something like a quarter of an hour, and that he had then gone home. He had not then or at any time during the past five years set foot inside the Catherine-Wheel. He had not at any time during the past twenty-four hours either seen Luke White or had any communication with him.
When they had let him go Crisp said in his most didactic manner.
‘You may depend upon it that’s the way it was. There was that window unlatched—the one just through there.’ He pointed at the door going through to the lounge. ‘All the others were hasped—that one wasn’t. Ca
