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"Looks to me like you'd made up your mind to saddle this thing onto him whether he done it or not. Well, he's a poor Mexican, but I won't stand to see him railroaded, and neither will 'Young Ed." "No?" "You heard me! Ed will alibi him complete." Law answered, sharply: "You tell Ed Austin to go slow with his alibis.
But law talk in all its plenitude, followed; and for two hours I heard of nothing but writs, detainers, declarations, traverses in prox, and alibis, with sundry hints for qui tam processes, interspersed, occasionally, with sly jokes about packing juries and confusing witnesses, among which figured the usual number of good things attributed to the Chief Baron O'Grady and the other sayers of smart sayings at the bar.
"It's certainly odd she should speak like this," said Random thoughtfully; "but you forget, Miss Kendal, that she proved an alibi." "What of that?" cried Don Pedro hurriedly, "alibis can be manufactured." "It will be best to see this woman and question her," suggested Donna Inez. Archie nodded. "I shall do so to-morrow. By the way, does she ever come to your room in the Fort, Random?"
It flashed on the man lingering on the solitary river-side quay, that even now, to-night, it was not too late for him to establish the most effectual of alibis. By taking a fiacre and bribing the man to drive quickly he could be back in his rooms in the Rue de Rivoli, dressed, and at his club, before midnight. Fool that he was to have wasted even a quarter of an hour!
On the patroon lay the burden of proof, and he found it more difficult than he had anticipated to establish satisfactorily any kind of a case, for alibis blocked his progress at every turn. At war with his neighbors, and with little taste for the monotony of a northern winter, he bethought him of his native city, determined to leave the locality and at a distance wait for the turmoil to subside.
"You knew, of course, we couldn't convict him for that killing. We had a perfect case, but the Mafia cleared him. Same old story perjury, alibis, and jury-fixing. We put him away for resisting an officer, though; they couldn't stop us there. But they've 'sprung' him and he's back in town again. Damn such people!
You could arrest every known member of the gang, and they'd have twenty alibis ready, and jolly good alibis too. It is years since the colonel staged an outrage of this kind and his right hand has not lost its cunning. Look at the organisation of it! The men get into the house without attracting the attention of your watcher.
I remimber once, when I was swearin' an alibi for long Paddy Murray, that suffered for the M'Gees, I kissed my thumb, I thought, so smoothly, that no one would notice it; but I had a keen one to dale with, so says he, 'You know for the matther o' that, my good fellow, that you have your thumb to kiss every day in the week, says he, 'but you might salute the book out o' dacency and good manners; not, says he, 'that you an' it are strangers aither; for, if I don't mistake, you're an ould hand at swearin' alibis.
There is the employé of the lighting company who came to read the electric meter, two employés of a vacuum cleaning company whose names you may have, and the canvasser for a magazine who came to solicit a subscription. I have no hesitancy in giving you their names, so you may question them privately. "As for Mr. Ward and Mr. Beard, their alibis are equally strong. Mr.
But neither of these gentlemen had opportunity, as each has proven a perfect and indubitable alibi. I admit the alibis I've looked into them, and they are unimpeachable but I don't admit the motives. Granting a man's affection for a married woman, it is not at all a likely thing for him to kill her husband." "Right, Mr. Stone!" and Mason Elliott's voice rang out in honest appreciation.
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