Wait a little--wait, for instance, until Mr.Christopher Pett arrives with that will.

Then we shall advance a considerable stage." "I'm sorry for Avice Harborough, anyway," remarked Bent, "and it's utterly beyond me to imagine why her father can't say where he was last night.

I suppose there'd be an end of the case if he'd prove where he was, eh ?" "He'd have to account for every minute between nine and ten o'clock," answered Brereton.

"It would be no good, for instance, if we proved to a jury that from say ten o'clock until five o'clock next morning, Harborough was at--shall we say your county town, Norcaster.

You may say it would take Harborough an hour to get from here to Norcaster, and an hour to return, and that would account for his whereabouts between nine and ten last night, and between five and six this morning.