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They felt honest, but they did not look honest out here together. The car was checked and a voice called from the blur, "Want any help?" "No, thanks," Jim answered from his shadow. The car rolled on. While Jim made a vain post-mortem examination of the car's machinery Charity looked about for a guide-post. She found a large signboard proclaiming "Viewcrest Inn, 1 mile." She told Jim.
Kedzie telephoned Pet the moment she got back from the Viewcrest Inn, and Pet told her of Beattie. When Kedzie drifted into his ken with a word of introduction from Pet Bettany he hailed her as a Heaven-sent messenger. She brought him advertisement, and big fees on a platter. The very name of Dyckman was incense and myrrh. Mr. Beattie smelled gold.
That was the reason why there was no compromise, no concession, no politeness in the divorce. If collusion is vicious this case was certainly pure of it. Jim was not permitted a quiet talk with Kedzie from the moment she found him at the Viewcrest Inn. Her arrival there plus her family had thrown him into a stupor.
The chauffeur, the valet, and the Viewcrest servants were enough, however, to corroborate Skip Magruder's story beyond any assailing, and handwriting experts had no difficulty in convincing the jury that Jim's signature on the hotel register was in his own handwriting. He had made no effort to disguise it or even to change his name till the last of it was well begun. Mr. and Mrs.
"What people don't know won't hurt 'em," said Jim. "What they do imagine will hurt us," said Charity. At the top of a knoll in a clandestine group of trees they found "Viewcrest Inn." It was dark but for a dim light in the office. The door of that was locked.
"And on this night you went motoring with defendant?" "Yes." "Was his wife with you?" "No; you see " "Was any other person with you?" "You see, it was a new car and it was only our intention to " "Was any other person with you?" "No." "And you spent the night with the defendant in the Viewcrest Inn?" "That is hardly the way I should put it." "Answer the question, please."
I am in my evening clothes, so is er Mrs. er the lady I was with. I want you to bring me at once an outfit of day clothes, and a one of my wife's long motor-coats a very long one and one of her small hats. Then get out my wife's limousine and send the suit-case and the coat and hat to me here at the Viewcrest Inn, and tell the chauffeur to bring an extra can of gasolene."
What handsomer tribute could any woman ask of a man? He was a lover worth fighting for. But she had felt uncertain of winning him till that wonderful morning when Jim did not come back home. She woke up early all by herself and heard the valet answer Jim's call from Viewcrest. She had made a friend of Dallam by her flirtation with the nobility.
For we'll all be riding out to did you say Viewcrest Inn?" "Yes, ma'am. Very good, ma'am. Thank you!" He went away thinking to himself. He thought in cockney: "My Gawd! w'at a milit'ry genius! She dictites a horder loike a Proosian general. I'm beginnin' to fink she's gowing to do milord the mokkis prahd. There's no daht abaht it. Stroike me, if there is."
"Witnesses have testified and you have not denied that you arrived at the Viewcrest Inn late at night; that you saw the defendant register; that you and he went to the only room left; that the waiter left you together and found you together the next morning. You have heard that testimony, have you not?" "Yes." "Knowing all this, do you still claim that your conduct was above reproach?"
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