Merry meditated a little as he walked, his head slightly bowed. After a few moments he slowly shook his head.
“It won’t do,” he declared.
“What won’t?”
“Your plan.”
“I’d like to know why not!”
“I’ll tell you. In the first place, the proof is not sufficient.”
“Why, Merry, I heard their plot!”
“No question about that, but you have no one to back you up. You are the only person who overheard it.”
“That’s true,” admitted Bart reluctantly; “but then——”
“If you were to accuse them, both men would deny it and demand corroborative evidence, which you could not produce. It would be two against one, and their word would be just as effective as yours under such circumstances. Merely on your statement of the truth you could not have Huntley barred.”