“Would it not have been more natural to have given information at once, instead of hiding yourself?”
“Possibly it would.”
“Then what caused you to keep the matter a secret, and not come forward until now?” demanded the lawyer, with a shrewd look.
“I had my reasons.”
“It is those reasons I desire to know.”
“I refuse to state them.”
“Then your evidence is very incomplete, and I do not think the jury will accept it.”
“Not if I place the police on the track of the assassin?”
“You forget that by your refusal to state the whole of the facts, and keeping the matter secret as you have, that you are an accessory, in a certain degree, to your wife’s murder.”
“I’m fully aware of it; nevertheless I refuse to give you the reason why I believed I should be suspected of the crime.”