Had the man rolled down the embankment, there would have been some blood on the rocks along the path his body took.
How hast thou purchased this experience?
By my penny of observation.
Shakespeare.
[50. Daylight Robbery]
As no safe locks unless the combination is turned, Shaeffer’s story of banging it closed and then the robbers working on it five minutes was ridiculous!
He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney.
[51. A Simple Solution]
Had Smith committed suicide, the window through which he jumped would not have been closed as Fordney found it.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel. Coleridge.