Jack Towns took him in the meanwhile to his own house.
"You'll be my guest," he said, "and I'll see that we aren't interrupted."
"You still don't mind that?" Boyd asked.
For response he got an earnest look in the eyes, and the verbal answer:
"Don't be a fool, Boyd."
After a minute, Boyd asked, reflectively:
"How is it, Jack, that you and some others seem still to believe in me? In view of the evidence—"
"Hang the evidence," interrupted the lawyer. "Don't you know that character is the most important and the most trustworthy fact in life? You don't suppose for a moment that I have a doubt in your case, do you? If you do, you grievously wrong my friendship."
"How then do you account for the facts as set forth in the testimony against me?"
"What do you mean, Boyd? Are you trying to convince me that you are guilty of a crime that I know to be utterly impossible to you?"