“Yes; how quick you are, Zizi! That’s exactly what happened, because that’s the only way it could have been. Now, a man clever enough for all that is clever enough for anything. Yet I can’t see how he did it. Nor do I grasp his motive.”
“Jealous of Phyllis?”
“That isn’t enough to account for the crime.”
“No, it isn’t! He had another motive, and I’ve found it out. I found out up in Coggs’ Hollow.”
“Going to tell me?”
“You bet I am! Right away. How did you guess the man?”
“I didn’t guess. I deduced from his alibi. Such a clever villain—what would he naturally choose by way of alibi?”
“Just what he did do. Pretend not to have any—but when they investigate, they find he has a cast-iron one!”
“Exactly, and Manning Pollard’s was all that. But I can’t see how he managed it.”
“There’s only one way. He must have had a confederate who did the killing.”