"We saw him only about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour later coming up from the restaurant on the other side of the hotel." "Oh! he will come very near proving an alibi, without a doubt," Sabatini declared.

"He is quite clever when it comes to the point.

I wonder what sort of evidence they have against him." "Is there any reason," Arnold asked, "why he should kill Mr.
Rosario ?" Sabatini studied his program earnestly.
"Well," he admitted, "that is rather a difficult question to answer.
Mr.Rosario was a very obstinate man, and he was certainly persisting in a course of action against which I and many others had warned him, a course of action which was certain to make him exceedingly unpopular with a good many of us.

I am not sure, however, whether the facts were sufficiently well known--" Fenella interrupted.

She rose hurriedly to her feet.
"I am afraid, after all, that you will have to excuse me," she declared, moving to a seat at the back of the box.