"
For the first time in my life I felt angry with Aunt Lilian's husband. I
do hate that cold, stern "sense of justice" on which men pride
themselves so much, whether it's an affair of a friend or an enemy!
"Surely Mr. Dundas must have been able to prove an--an--don't you call
it an alibi?" asked Lisa.
"He didn't try to," replied Lord Bob. "He's simply refused, up to the
present, to tell what he was doing between twelve o'clock and the time
he was found, except to say that he walked for a good while before going
to the house where Girard afterwards found him. Of course he denies
killing the man: says the fellow had stolen something from him, on the
boat crossing from Dover to Calais yesterday, and that after applying to
the detective, he got a note from the thief, offering to give the thing
back if he would call and name a reward. Says he found the room already
ransacked and the fellow dead, when he arrived at the address given him;
that he was searching for his property when Girard appeared on the
scene."
"Couldn't he have shown the note sent by the thief?" asked Aunt Lil.
"He did show a note. But it does him more harm than good.
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