“All you can do,” said Dr. O’Grady, “is to tell them the truth.”
“The truth?” said Lord Manton.
“Yes; the simple truth, just as I’ve told it to you; doing your best, of course, to spare Mr. Sanders and Mr. Dick, especially Mr. Dick, on account of his poor wife.”
“I’m not sure,” said Mr. Goddard, “that they’d believe—I mean to say, I’m not sure that I could venture to tell them the truth—that exact kind of truth, I mean.”
“If you don’t care to tell it yourself,” said Dr. O’Grady, “get Jimmy O’Loughlin to tell it for you. He’d do it; wouldn’t he, Patsy?”
“Be damn, but he would,” said Patsy Devlin. “He’d tell it without as much as turning a hair, so soon as ever he knew what it was you wanted him to tell.”
THE END
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