"He has, I believe, a good deal of what is called brute courage."
"Yes, but I hadn't discovered it before."
"How long have you known Chamberlain?"
"I can't tell that exactly."
"How long have you been intimate with him?"
"Some seven or eight months."
"Did you know, Monday night, that he had gone to commit this robbery?"
"No, I only knew that he had gone out of town."
"Did he tell you about it when he came back?"
"The way of it was this: Tuesday evening I was reading an account of the murder, when Chamberlain came in. Then the truth flashed upon me at once. I accused him of killing the old woman, and he admitted it."