“Yes.”
“That’s better.”
“But tell me,” he said, watching her with increasing reserve and cunning. “Whom do you suspect?”
“John Graham.”
Steve’s eyes flashed.
“And what is your programme when you have established the fact?”
“The Attorney General has promised to hang him within thirty days.”
“With all due respect to the Attorney General—he can’t do it.”
“Why not?”
“We are living under conditions of revolution. No jury can be found who will convict him. There’s but one way.”