The four young men at the bar, Jimmy and one waiter, Francis and Sir Timothy Brast, were its only occupants.
"I say, you know, that's a bit thick, isn't it ?" Sidney Voss stammered at last.

"I wasn't in the place at all, I was in Manchester, but it's a bit rough on these other chaps, Victor's pals." "I was dining at the Cafe Royal," Jacks declared, loudly.
Morse drew a little breath.
"Every one knows that I was at Brighton," he muttered.
"I went home directly the bar here closed," Jimmy said, in a still dazed tone.

"I heard nothing about it till the next morning." "Alibis by the bushel," Fairfax laughed harshly.

"As for me, I was doing my show--every one knows that.

I was never in the place at all." "The murder was not committed in the place," Francis commented calmly.
Fairfax slid off his stool.