"They want him as a witness in the McBride case. They—Moxlow, that is—seems to think he knows something that may be of importance. He's a crazy fool, with his notions!"
"But North—" Evelyn began.
"It may make a lot of trouble for him. They are going to bring him back as a witness, and unless he gives a pretty good account of himself, Moxlow's scheme is to try and hold him—"
"What do you mean by a good account of himself?"
"He'll, have to be able to tell just where he was between half past five and six o'clock last night; that's when the murder was committed, according to Taylor."
"Do you mean he's suspected, Marsh? But he couldn't have done it!" she cried.
"How do you know?" he asked quickly.
"Why, I was there—"
"Where?"
"With him—"