And now he favored Luckstone with an exultant gleam that carried no hope of compromise.
"You realize the significance of the identification, don't you ?" Britz inquired with exasperating coolness.
"I don't see what it has to do with the murder," Luckstone retorted.

"My clients never saw Mr.Whitmore after they left him at the opera house." "Then you mean to intimate that if he was shot that night, the shooting was done by an outsider ?" "That is the only reasonable inference." "It is a most unreasonable inference," said Britz.
"Why ?" "Because it does not explain why Mr.Whitmore should have tried to give his death the aspect of suicide.

Moreover, had he been shot by an outsider, the police would have been notified at once.

As a final reason for discarding any theory that he was shot by someone outside of the four persons whom you represent, I mention the silence which they have so consistently maintained." "They have done so by my advice," said the lawyer.
"And do you still advise them to remain silent ?" "I do, except as to proving an alibi." "You deem that sufficient ?" "I do.

It is all that would be required before a jury." "I suppose that you have effectually silenced the physician who attended Mr.Whitmore," said Britz, "and I know that the servant in Mr.Beard's house was permitted to spend the night in question with his parents in Newark.