"Oh, you!" interrupted Felix with a sneer. "You know it all, you do. You know so much, maybe you'll explain why Reelfoot says you told him Tip O'Gorman was gonna tangle him up in the Walton murder and that the easiest way was for him to down Tip."
"He says Rafe Tuckleton told him that," corrected the district attorney.
"He says you did too," accused Sam Larder. "What did you tell him a thing like that for?"
"Reelfoot's a liar," declared the district attorney. "I never told him anything of the kind. Why should I?"
"I don't know. I'd like to find out." The fat man's stare was bright with suspicion.
The district attorney bristled. "Good Lord, man, I was always friendly with Tip."
"You were friendlier with Rafe Tuckleton," pointed out Felix, "and we all know Tip didn't have any use for Rafe after that Walton deal, and Rafe knew it."
"It's just possible," put in Sam Larder, "that Rafe put Reelfoot up to downing Tip."
"In which case," supplemented Felix, "you bein' so friendly with Rafe, it would be natural for you to help him."
"Next thing you'll be saying I killed Tip." Thus the district attorney with sarcasm.