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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER XIV
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Ain't that what you call it ?" "You'll tell nothing.

Understand?
You'll tell nothing, other than that you, with Robert Fairchild, found that skeleton.

An inquest is n't a trial.

And that can't come without knowledge and evidence that this man was murdered.

So, remember--you tell the coroner's jury that you found this body and nothing more!" "But--" "It's a case for the grand jury after that, to study the findings of the coroner's jury and to sift out what evidence comes to it." "You mean--" This time it was Fairchild cutting in--"that if the coroner's jury cannot find evidence that this man was murdered, or something more than mere supposition to base a charge on--there 'll be no trouble for Harry ?" "It's very improbable.


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