I prepare
myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much
the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to
forward his own views. But upon my word he put it very strongly. He
brought it all within so very short a space of time! Bonteen and Finn
left the club within a minute of each other. Bonteen must have been
at the top of the passage five minutes afterwards, and Phineas at
that moment could not have been above two hundred yards from him.
There can be no doubt of that."
"Oswald, you don't mean to say that it's going against him!"
exclaimed Lady Chiltern.
"It's not going any way at present. The witnesses have not been
examined. But so far, I suppose, the Attorney-General was right. He
has got to prove it all, but so much no doubt he can prove. He can
prove that the man was killed with some blunt weapon, such as Finn
had. And he can prove that exactly at the same time a man was running
to the spot very like to Finn, and that by a route which would not
have been his route, but by using which he could have placed himself
at that moment where the man was seen.
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