“You refuse to state where you spent last evening?”
“I do.”
“Not a good thing for you to do,” Gibbs shook his head, “but let it pass for the moment. Where were you at two o’clock this morning?”
“In bed and asleep.”
“You can prove this?”
“By me!” spoke up Letitia Prall. “I heard him come in about twelve and go to his room.”
“H’m. Proof to a degree. How do you know he didn’t leave the apartment later?”
“Because I didn’t hear him do so.”
“Where is his room, and where is your own?”
After being shown the respective bedrooms, Gibbs remarked that in his opinion Bates could easily have left his room without Miss Prall’s knowledge, if she were asleep at the time.