“There’s a place on the clock that shows a signal when that happens.”
“And did you notice that place particularly?”
“Well, not particularly, but... Shucks, if it had been anything to notice, I’d have noticed it. I always go by that in telling the time.”
“But nevertheless you may have been mistaken?”
“Not one chance in ten thousand.”
“Then there is one chance in ten thousand that you were mistaken?” Mason asked.
“Well, if you want to play a ten thousand to one shot,” Baker said, “you’re welcome to. I don’t. Twenty to one is my limit.”
Again the courtroom stirred with a comment of whisper and suppressed laughter.
“Now when you returned to get these dishes, no one said anything to you?”
“No, sir.”