“They went out to call on Cullens.”
“Why didn’t they call on him, then?”
“When they drove up to the curb, the house was dark. They Were on the point of driving away, thinking no one was home, when they saw the beam of a flashlight playing against the windows. That impressed them as being rather unusual so they sat there in the car watching and then they heard the shots, and, a few moments later, saw you come out of the door and run down toward the sidewalk. That was all they waited for. They stepped on the gas and drove away.”
“That’s what they say,” she observed.
“That,” Mason admitted, “is what they say.”
“And that, as you lawyers have it, puts me at the scene of the crime at the time the murder was being committed.”
“That’s right.”
“It also puts them at the scene of the crime at the time the murder was being committed.”
“Right,” Mason said,
“Can you use that in breaking down their story in front of a jury?”