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Now Peters, the physician and the clergyman are all willing to swear to the statement that Bert Dodge hired Fessenden, Bettrick and Deevers to testify against me. Young Dodge, according to the overheard conversation, met and drilled all three in their parts. That was before the three came here yesterday afternoon, with the Dodges, and supplied you with the affidavits that you now hold.
"That's good," said Nick. "Now, if you'll follow Deever, I'll go back to Dr. Jarvis." Accordingly Nick hurried home. He found Jarvis in a state of great mental anguish. "It is an extraordinary fate," he cried, as soon as Nick appeared, "which has twice brought these Deevers into my life to make me miserable." "You have had to do with them before?" asked Nick.
Fessenden, Bettrick and Deevers, however, were all three warned and the district attorney filed away the lying affidavits, in case a use for them should ever come up. By degrees the story of Bert Dodge's latest infamy leaked out. The news, however, did not come through any word spread by either of our young West Pointers. A Glorious summer it was for the two second classman on furlough!
The names of your witnesses, or of your most important witnesses, are Fessenden, Bettrick and Deevers. Fessenden was a bank clerk, discharged from the bank by the elder Dodge. Bettrick is a truck-driver, and Deevers is -well, I understand he has no more important occupation than lounging about drinking places." "I am sorry that you know the names of my witnesses," replied Lawyer Griffin gravely.
Now, all three of them listened." Lawyer Griffin was eyeing Prescott curiously. "Yesterday afternoon," continued Dick, changing the subject with seeming abruptness, "Fessenden, Bettrick and Deevers were all here, and signed affidavits before a clerk of yours, who is a notary public." "Proceed," requested Mr. Griffin, without either denying or admitting the truth of Dick's statement.
I was just going for a tug when you ran him aboard the police-boat. "At any rate," he said in conclusion, "it's some satisfaction to know that it was you, and not he, that outsailed me." The two Deevers were punished in due course for conspiracy, and Flint for perjury. "On the whole," said Superintendent Byrnes to Nick, "I think that was about the prettiest work I ever saw.
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