Little honour is likely to accrue to you from defending me." "I have accepted the case and I shall continue to interest myself in it," he assured me, with a dogged rather than genial persistence.

"But I should like to know what I am to work upon, if it cannot be shown that her call for help came before you entered the building." "That would be the best defence possible, of course," I replied; "but neither from your standpoint nor mine is it a feasible one.

I have no proof of my assertion, I never looked at my watch from the time I left the station till I found it run down this very morning.

The club-house clock has been out of order for some time and was not running.

All I know and can swear to about the length of time I was in that building prior to the arrival of the police, is that it could not have been very long, since she was not only dead and buried under those accumulated cushions, but in a room some little distance from the telephone." "That will do for me," said he, "but scarcely for those who are prejudiced against you.