He was no respecter of persons.

He frankly suspected both Alice and Father Beret of lying.

He would himself have lied under the existing circumstances, and he considered himself as truthful and trustworthy as priest or maiden.
"I'll get that flag for you," he said to Hamilton, "if I have to put every man, woman and child in this town on the rack.

It lies, I think, between Miss Roussillon and the priest, although both insistently deny it.

I've thought it over in every way, and I can't see how they can both be ignorant of where it is, or at least who got it." Hamilton, since being treated to that wonderful blow on the jaw, was apt to fall into a spasm of anger whenever the name Roussillon was spoken in his hearing.