As the man had removed his overcoat on entering the Professor’s living-room, it was perfectly patent he had not been handcuffed.
He said he ran over to Fordney’s immediately after the bandits left.
Truth has not such an urgent air.
Boileau.
[48. Too Late]
Fordney doubted Palmer’s innocence because of his statement, ‘I’d got there not more than five minutes behind him.’
There was, of course, no way he could have determined when Frank had arrived at the cabin.
In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. Livy.
[49. Sergeant Reynolds’s Theory]
The Professor told Reynolds, ‘There was no blood between the road and the boulder.’