“But you are wrong, Carter, dead wrong,” Conroy repeated. “I know what I am talking about, and I’m going to prove it to you.”
“That’s up to you, then,” said Nick. “I’m always, open to conviction. I’m willing to listen.”
“That’s as it should be,” Conroy replied. “As I understand it, from what you two have been saying, some girl or child has recently been abducted.”
“Exactly,” said Nick, not without an object in prolonging this conversation.
“Yesterday afternoon?”
“Yes.”
“At what time?”
“About four o’clock.”
“Well, I was with Kate Crandall in a moving-picture house at that hour, so I know she could have had no hand in an abduction,” Conroy forcibly asserted. “I know also that you may not believe that, since I am her intimate friend, and it’s on another point that I’m going to set you right.”
“What point is that?”