Here we go again! Rand thought. Just like the Rivers case; everybody
putting the finger on everybody else....
"And have undressed and taken a bath, while he was waiting?" he inquired.
"You came down here only five minutes after the shot. In that time,
Dunmore would have had to wipe his fingerprints off the revolver, leave
it in Fleming's hand, put that oily rag in his other hand, set the
deadlatch, cross the hall, undress, get into the bathtub and start
bathing. That's pretty fast work."
"But who else could have done it?"
"Well, you, for one. You could have come down from your lab, shot
Fleming, faked the suicide, and then gone out, locking the door behind
you, and made a demonstration in the hall until you were joined by
Dunmore and the ladies. Then, with your innocence well established, you
could have waited until your wife prompted you, as she or somebody else
was sure to, and then have gone down to the library and up the spiral,"
Rand said. "That's about as convincing, no more and no less, as your
theory about Dunmore."
Varcek agreed sadly. "And I cannot prove otherwise, can I?"
"You can advance your Dunmore theory to establish reasonable doubt," Rand
told him. "And if Dunmore's accused, he can do the same with the theory
I've just outlined.
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