About as far from here tothat end, I guess, he
lied, stretching the distance by at leasteight feet.
Not when you were buying and eating
thirteen-dollarlunches? You bothered to askthe price of the room at Grass Lake. I
borrowed that money after I got to Twelfth Lake. No, I wasnt hungry, replied Clyde,
simply.
It cant be any otherway now, Clyde, although for
your own sake I wish it could. I cant say what she had in her mind about
that.
It is purely an argumentative oneand has no real
bearing on the facts in this case.
Yet continuing relations with Miss Alden when your
other interestsleft you any time. Object, yelled Belknap, leaping to his feet. Here
is the boat now and where wereyou out there in the audience, as to distance, I mean?
But up to that time you hadnt even thought of the Adirondacksspecifically. You
wouldnt be so nervous about it now,would you?
Now just what do yousuppose, she meant by that word
respectable? Most certainly a trap was being prepared for him.
Well now, dont you recall that you never asked the
boatman atall? You wanted to get away from that place as quickly as possible,wasnt
that it? But with that particular incident the court was adjourned for
thisday.
And then theoffender arrested and ordered arraigned
on the following morning.
I agreed to let you go by then, you know, if you
wantto. And how was it you knew so much about the boat and the time andall about
Three Mile Bay?
And you picked on Grass Lake as being the best
because it was thecheapest. It is purely an argumentative oneand has no real bearing
on the facts in this case.
Here is the boat now and where wereyou out there in
the audience, as to distance, I mean?
They never said anything to me about it, replied
Clyde. What a pity you couldnt think to ask the price of theboat at Big
Bittern?
Like that other accident out there in Kansas
City,for instance. Before going up there with her you hadnt been liking her as
muchas you might have. Besides I was afraid if I went near her
I felt moresorry for her than anything else, I
suppose. It is purely an argumentative oneand has no real bearing on the facts in
this case. You even asked the price of the bus fare to BigBittern.
You didnt think shed make as good a match as Miss
X?
Yes, thats what I jumped up for, replied Clyde
heavily, but Iwasnt close enough to grab her. Well, were they all liars, or were
they telling the truth?
And how about the cry that woman had heard? Are
these the ones you found in the rack at the Renfrew House andtook upstairs to show
Miss Alden?
Well, they were telling the truth as near as they
could remember,I suppose.