Whatever people may think, he had nothing to do with this crime----" "You did not observe him, I say, standing in the doorway and watching you ?" Now the inspector knew that Bartow had not been standing there, but at the loophole above; but the opportunity for entrapping the witness was too good to lose.
Mr.Adams was caught in the trap, or so one might judge from the beads of perspiration which at that moment showed themselves on his pale forehead.

But he struggled to maintain the stand he had taken, crying hotly: "But that man is crazy, and deaf-and-dumb besides! or so the papers give out.

Surely his testimony is valueless.

You would not confront me with him ?" "We confront you with no one.

We only asked you a question.