“To begin with, Nick, Gordon refused to say where he was at eleven o’clock last night. Kennedy then told him about the murder and placed him under arrest. To make a long story short, for I have not all of the details, Gordon’s evening suit, which he admits having worn last night, was found spattered with blood.”
“H’m, is that so?”
“There are stains of blood in one pocket of his overcoat, also, as if the jimmy was disjointed and thrust into it after the murder. You can see for yourself that the weapon used by the assassin is missing.”
“Yes, so I have noticed.”
“In the other pocket of Gordon’s overcoat was a disguise, a false beard and mustache. They——”
“One moment,” Nick interrupted. “Gordon saw all of this evidence, I suppose.”
“Yes, certainly.”
“What did he say about it?”
“Nothing.”
“Nothing?”