“And while he was gone Gay came in?”
“Yes.[{23}]”
“When he entered the door where were you?”
“At the side of the corpse.”
“What were you doing?”
“I had just stooped to pick up the pistol.”
“Oh! But you didn’t pick it up?”
“Why, no! In my personal contact with Gay I forgot it.”
Nick gave a quiet chuckle in his innermost soul at so neatly trapping a lawyer.
“Whose pistol was it, Mr. Redway?”