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"If he could only put forward an alibi," Lance Darby said, when the Hill crowd of Central High boys and girls discussed the matter. "But he won't say a word!" cried Nellie. "I believe he is innocent." "Then why doesn't he tell where he was at the time?" demanded Laura sternly. "Is he scared to tell the truth?" asked Jess. "I don't think he is," Chet observed thoughtfully.
I think he thought so, too, for I could see that his face was terribly white, and he now and then passed his tongue over his lips, as if they were parched. "You see he was in the awful dilemma a perfectly natural one, by the way of being absolutely incapable of proving an alibi. The crime if crime there was had been committed three weeks ago. A man about town like Mr.
The Probationer worried a great deal about this matter of the alibi. It had to be a clean slate for the folks back home, and especially for Jerry. She took her anxieties out walking several times on her off-duty, but nothing seemed to come of it. She walked on the Avenue mostly, because it was near and she could throw a long coat over her blue dress.
Quamobrem alibi vivere coactus, varias Italiæ urbes incoluit, ac Ferrariæ, Parmæ, Mediolani, Romæ, Genuæ, arithmeticam, geometricam, ceteraque quæ ad Mathesim pertinent, docuit; depugnavitque scriptis accerrimis cum Cardano ac sibi ex illis quæsivit nomen et gloriam.
In this outbreak, and during the same year, the rebels broke into the city of London, burned the palaces, plundered the warehouses, and killed off the gentlemen wherever an alibi could not be established, winding up with the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"Oh, Peter!" cried Linda, "tell the truth about it. Don't try any evasions. I am so sick of them." A rather queer light sprang into Peter's eyes. He leaned forward suddenly and caught the coat from Linda's fingers. "Well, if you need an alibi concerning this coat," he said, "I think I can furnish it speedily." As he talked he whirled the garment around and shot his long arms into the sleeves.
His car is what he calls a hummer. It can go like blazes forty miles an hour, he told me. And the old fort road is a dandy, too." "They would leave the automobile at Willow Creek, and cut across to the Pass," she hazarded. "All but Brill. Being bridlewise, he rode right for Seven Mile to make dead sure of his alibi, whilst the others made their getaway with the loot.
The old one was gabbling on in a querrilous gossipy tone: "Well, it'll go hard with Mark Carter if the man dies. Everybody knows he was here, and unless he can prove an alibi !" They were crawling reluctantly out of their haunts now, and Billy could catch but one more sentence: "Well, I'm sorry fer his ma. I used to go to school with Mrs. Carter when we were kids."
Of course, he would be forced to prove an alibi, but by that time all England would be yelping, 'Thou art the man. In any event, Hilton's trail would be hopelessly lost." "The true bowket of our port and bromide begins to tickle my nostrils." A good-looking maid brought coffee, and Furneaux grinned at her.
"But, as it will never do if John, too, can prove an alibi, she writes him an anonymous note still copying his hand-writing which takes him to a remote spot where it is exceedingly unlikely that anyone will see him. "So far, all goes well. Miss Howard goes back to Middlingham. Alfred Inglethorp returns to Styles.
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