“He told me he needed one right away, and that, under the law, no store would deliver one for a period of three days after he’d ordered it.”
“Did he say why he wanted the gun?”
“No.”
“You knew it was stealing to take that gun?”
“I wasn’t stealing it, I was borrowing it.”
“Oh, Sabin promised to return it, did he?”
“Yes.”
“And you want this jury to understand that Fremont C. Sabin deliberately asked you to steal the gun, with which he was killed, from a collection?”
Mason said, “Don’t answer that, Miss Monteith. You just testify to facts. I think the jury will understand you, all right.”
Sprague turned savagely to Mason and said, “I thought we weren’t going to have any technicalities.”