What was he going to reveal next? Was he
going to accuse someone in the room?
"Mr. Marshall," he resumed with a smile toward me, "I am glad to
say is quite normal and innocent of all wrongdoing--in this
instance," he added with a momentary flash of humour.
"Commissioner Dillon also passes muster. Mr. Warrington--I shall
come back to, later."
I thought Violet Winslow gave a little, startled gasp. She turned
toward him, anyhow, and I saw that not even science now could
shake her faith in him.
"Mr. Forbes," he continued, speaking rapidly as I bent forward to
catch every word, "incriminated himself quite sufficiently in
connection with the gambling joint, the raid and the slanderous
letter, so that I should advise him when this case comes to trial
to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about his
helping a gunman in order to further what proved a hopeless love
affair on his own part. Here, too, is a little vest-pocket gun
that was found under such circumstances as would be likely to
connect Forbes in the popular mind with the shootings.
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