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And Priam's voice grew fainter and fainter, and his gestures more and more self-incriminating. Pennington, K.C., achieved one or two brilliant little effects. "Now you say you went with the defendant to his club, and that he told you of the difficulty he was in!" "Yes." "Did he make you any offer of money?" "Yes." "Ah! What did he offer you?" "Thirty-six thousand pounds." "So!
Tooly assumed an air of comradeship toward all, addressing various individuals as "Partner" and "Neighbor"; but his obvious willingness to hold the center of the stage made it clear that he deemed himself the important personage of the community. Some things he said were self-incriminating.
Was poor old Anna going to reveal something of a very serious self-incriminating kind? "It was Willi!" exclaimed the old woman at last. She now spoke in a whisper, and in German. "It was to Willi that I gave my promise to say nothing. You see, gracious lady, it was a friend of Willi's who was making a chemical invention. It was he who left these goods with me.
He pointed out to Joe that, since he had taken the witness-stand, he had thus professed his willingness to lay bare all his knowledge of the tragedy, and that his reservation was an indication of insincerity. The one way in which he could have withheld information not of a self-incriminating nature, was for him to have kept off the stand.
Fogerty was annoyed by the man's evident caution. It would not be easy to surprise Mershone in any self-incriminating action. But, after all, reflected the boy, resting comfortably in the soft-padded cushions of a big leather chair, all this really made the case the more interesting. He was rather glad Mershone was in no hurry to precipitate a climax. A long stern chase was never a bad chase.
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