"I don't believe you did, and Inspector Kedsty doesn't believe it--yet the mighty queer part of it is--" "What ?" "That Kedsty is acting on your confession in a big hurry.

I don't believe it's according to Hoyle, as the regulations are written.

But he's doing it.

And I want to know--it's the biggest thing I EVER wanted to know--did you kill Barkley ?" "O'Connor, if you don't believe a dying man's word--you haven't much respect for death, have you ?" "That's the theory on which the law works, but sometimes it ain't human.

Confound it, man, DID YOU ?" "Yes." O'Connor sat down and with his finger-nails pried open the box of cigars.