"Yes, sir."
"What tailor?"
Alas, Clyde could not remember.
"Then you wore it crumpled and wet, did you, from Big Bittern to Sharon?"
"Yes, sir."
"And no one noticed it, of course."
"Not that I remember—no."
"Not that you remember, eh? Well, we'll see about that later," and deciding that unquestionably Clyde was a plotter and a murderer. Also that eventually he could make Clyde show where he had hidden the suit or had had it cleaned.
Next there was the straw hat found on the lake. What about that? By admitting that the wind had blown his hat off, Clyde had intimated that he had worn a hat on the lake, but not necessarily the straw hat found on the water. But now Mason was intent on establishing within hearing of these witnesses, the ownership of the hat found on the water as well as the existence of a second hat worn later.
"That straw hat of yours that you say the wind blew in the water? You didn't try to get that either at the time, did you?"