"Now to return to the night of the murder. You say that your son did not tell you where he was going?"
"No."
"That you thought he was going to his club?"
"I thought it probable; yes."
"Don't you think it probable that he went to meet this woman?"
"I don't know."
"You see how important the question is. You say your son left the house at ten o'clock that night, and that he was not seen until the following morning, when he was discovered by the policeman, murdered. According to the doctor's evidence he had been dead some little time before that. Thus there are several hours to account for. Have you no idea where he was during those hours?"
"None at all beside what I have told you."
This part of the examination continued for some time; though beyond what I have written nothing of importance was elicited. But the evidence given created an impression which could not be gainsaid.
Paul had made it abundantly evident that the murdered man was not without enemies, as had been so strongly insisted, and he had also raised doubts concerning what he had been doing between the hours when Wilson left his father's house and the time of the murder.