“Pardon me, but I went first to the hotel.”
“Yes; and you enquired there where Ricketts hung out.”
“Certainly; but that’s in my favour. It showed that so far from being in the employ of the lawyer, I didn’t even know where he lived.”
“It was a good bluff.”
“It’s very circumstantial evidence of my innocence. But for the sake of argument, I will admit that I am in ‘cohoots,’ as you call it, with the estimable Ricketts. What next?”
“The next thing is that you learnt from Miss Armstrong of our intention to go into Bleachers and shoot up the town, including Ricketts.”
“That is true.”
“You didn’t like the plan and said so.”
“That also is correct.”