[The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Old Man in the Corner CHAPTER XVII 1/7
UNDENIABLE FACTS There was a moment's silence, for Polly did not reply immediately, and he went on making impossible knots in his bit of string.
Then she said quietly-- "I think that I agree with those English people who say that an English jury would have condemned her....
I have no doubt that she was guilty. She may not have committed that awful deed herself.
Some one in the Charlotte Square house may have been her accomplice and killed and robbed Lady Donaldson while Edith Crawford waited outside for the jewels.
David Graham left his godmother at 8.30 p.m.If the accomplice was one of the servants in the house, he or she would have had plenty of time for any amount of villainy, and Edith Crawford could have yet caught the 9.10 p.m.train from the Caledonian Station." "Then who, in your opinion," he asked sarcastically, and cocking his funny birdlike head on one side, "tried to sell diamond earrings to Mr. Campbell, the jeweller ?" "Edith Crawford, of course," she retorted triumphantly; "he and his clerk both recognized her." "When did she try to sell them the earrings ?" "Ah, that is what I cannot quite make out, and there to my mind lies the only mystery in this case.
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