21, who happened to be on the step at the time), to prove a complete _alibi_, it would have gone hard with him.

I didn't know Biggs's boy at that time, but, from what I have seen of them since, I should not have attached much importance to that _alibi_ myself.
Biggs's boy, as I have said, came round the corner.

He was evidently in a great hurry when he first dawned upon the vision, but, on catching sight of Harris and me, and Montmorency, and the things, he eased up and stared.

Harris and I frowned at him.

This might have wounded a more sensitive nature, but Biggs's boys are not, as a rule, touchy.