"I know! But it sounds so dreadful! Before, he was only suspected, even though formally charged. Now it seems as if he were found guilty!"
"Far from it. The only evidence against him, just as it has been all along, is circumstantial. They have yet to prove anything, and I don't believe they can. Cheer up! I'll get him off yet!"
"Are you sure, Colonel?" and her eyes were bright with unshed tears.
"Sure? Why, of course I am!"
And yet the colonel had to force himself a bit to make that sound natural. Perhaps it was because he had said it so often and was tired.
Or did it have anything to do with the strange wires that led to the work table of James Darcy?
CHAPTER X
THE DEATH WATCH
Doctor Warren, the county physician, stopping in at police headquarters, as he often did on returning from his round of private visits, to see if there were any official calls for him, encountered Detective Carroll.
"Hello, Doc!" was the genial greeting, for Doctor Warren was more than a physician. He was a politician, and politics and the police were no more divorced in Colchester than elsewhere. "Seen that colonel guy to-day?" asked Carroll.