Mr. Chesterton: It would be a large placard?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Chesterton: Rather like this? (Handing to the witness a reproduction of the original cover design for the book.)
Witness: Very like the second illustration from the top on the left-hand side.
Mr. Chesterton: Very well: that was your plan—that Jasper should be caught taking the ring, and thus be convicted of attempted murder?
Witness: Quite.
Mr. Chesterton: Of which you believed him to be guilty?
Witness: Beyond doubt.
Mr. Chesterton: It is not my business to ask you what happened, but I suppose somehow or other he got arrested for actual murder. Is that correct?
Witness: Quite right.