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Finally, there was the evidence of the detectives who originally arrested him at Liverpool Docks in view of his suspicious demeanour. This completed the case for the prosecution. Sir CHARLES BROWN-HARLAND, Q.C., rose with a swagger and a rustle of his silk gown, and proceeded to set forth the theory of the defence. He said he did not purpose to call many witnesses.
That Mrs. Drabdump, failing to rouse him, would cry 'Murder! I took for certain. She is built that way. As even Sir Charles Brown-Harland remarked, she habitually takes her prepossessions for facts, her inferences for observations. She forecasts the future in grey. Most women of Mrs. Drabdump's class would have behaved as she did.
Drabdump, Grodman, Inspector Howlett, and Sergeant Runnymede were recalled and reëxammed by the embarrassed Sir Charles Brown-Harland as to the exact condition of the lock and the bolt and the position of the key.
SPIGOT, Q.C.: "That will do, thank you, Mrs. Drabdump." BROWN-HARLAND, Q.C.: "No; one question more, Mrs. Drabdump. Did you ever see anything say, when Miss Dymond came to your house to make you suspect anything between Mr. Constant and the prisoner's sweetheart?" "She did meet him once when Mr. Mortlake was out." "Where did she meet him?" "In the passage.
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