“I’d like to hear it sometime.”

I said, “When they disbarred me, they told me I was crazy, that my scheme wouldn’t hold water, that it was just a pipe dream, but that it showed a dangerous, antisocial type of mind.”

“Then what?”

“Then,” I said, “I went out and proved it to them.”

“Who committed the murder?”

“They thought I did.”

She looked at me abruptly. “Say, are you taking me for a ride?”

“Only in a taxicab.”

Those steady, hazel eyes of hers kept looking right through me. She said, “Darned if I don’t believe you.”

“You might as well. I have nothing to gain by lying.”