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I prepared the case for the defence at the trial, and I only permitted that defence to be put forward because there was no other course the evidence was so overwhelming, and Penreath's obstinate silence in the face of it pointed so conclusively to his guilt." "Nevertheless, you were wrong. The question is, are you going to help me undo that wrong?"
"I have heard, though, that Penreath met Miss Willoughby in London before the war, and became engaged after a very brief acquaintance. Ill-natured people say that the girl's aunt threw her at Penreath's head. The aunt is a Mrs. Brewer, a wealthy manufacturer's widow, a pushing nobody " "I have met her." "I had forgotten. Well, you know that type of woman, with an itch to get into Society.
"After Penreath's conviction she began, womanlike, to wonder if she had not been too hasty in assuming his guilt, and as the time slipped by and brought the day of his doom nearer she grew desperate, and as a last resource she came to me. It was a good thing she did so.
"And nothing more was said on either side while Penreath was in the room?" "Nothing. Penreath's attitude struck me as that of a man who did not wish to speak. He appeared self-conscious and confused, like a man with a secret to hide." "Perhaps his silence was due to pride.
The stories of the landlord of the inn, the deaf waiter, and the servant supported that theory in varying degrees, and afforded an additional ground for the credibility of the belief that Penreath was the murderer. The final and most convincing proof Penreath's silence under the accusation does not come into the narrative of events at this point, because he had not been arrested.
If you wish the jury to say that Penreath is the victim of what French writers call epilepsie larvée, in which an outbreak of brutal or homicidal violence takes the place of an epileptic fit, with a similar break in the continuity of consciousness, you will first have to convince the judge that Penreath's preceding fits were so slight as to permit the possibility of their being overlooked, and you will also have to establish beyond doubt that the break in his consciousness existed from the time of the scene in the hotel breakfast-room until the time the murder was committed.
"That means that you continue in your refusal to speak. Will you answer one or two questions?" "No." "Will you not tell me why you kept silence about what you saw in Mr. Glenthorpe's room that night of the murder?" "Man, how did you find that out?" Penreath's calm disappeared in a sudden fury of voice and look. "What do you know?"
The thought that the boots would leave footprints which would subsequently be identified as Penreath's was altogether too subtle to have occurred to a man like Benson. That is the touch of a master criminal of a much higher order of criminal brain than Benson's.
"Why not?" retorted Sir Henry innocently. "Mr. Colwyn knows all about it I told him myself. I thought you wanted him to help you?" "I am aware of that, but, my dear sir, this is an extremely delicate and difficult business. As Mr. Penreath's professional adviser, I must beg of you to exercise more reticence."
"This fact is highly significant, because the matches in Penreath's silver box are, as you see, blue-headed wax matches, whereas the matches struck in Mr. Glenthorpe's room on the night of the murder were of an entirely different description wooden matches with pink heads, of British manufacture so-called war matches, with cork pine sticks.
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