Major Kent may be right or wrong.

But there's no use his disputing with me.

He wouldn't be in a bit better position if I had turned round and gone home." "I suppose not." "So we may rule that explanation out of court.

And yet the man must have had a motive of some sort.

No one would take all the trouble that he has taken unless he saw his way to gain something by it." The judge paused again, thinking deeply.