So much for the situation as it appears to outsiders.

Of the circumstantial evidence which links you personally to this crime, we have already spoken.

It is very strong and apparently unassailable.

But truth is truth, and if you only felt free to bare your whole soul to me as you now decline to do, I should not despair of finding some weak link in the chain which seems so satisfactory to the police and, I am forced to add, to the general public." "Charles--" I was very near unbosoming myself to him at that moment.

But I caught myself back in time.