three things, all of them true. I said that I knew you were not hurt when you left me last night, and that I would swear that you did not get hurt till this morning. And I said that it was after twelve when I woke mother by going through her room. Now, I know that you left at eleven; but I did not fasten the outside door and pass through mother's room till a little after twelve. She did not know that you had not just left. I did not tell her."
"I see that she only told what she thought," Preston acknowledged. "But you knew I had at least an hour to do what was done in Plymouth last night between eleven and twelve. And you knew that I might have done it!"
"I knew!" the girl again defended him defiantly against himself, "that you could not possibly have done it! I knew it! I knew it even before the police put that in about your hurt wrist!" she cried. "I'd know now that you couldn't have done it, if I didn't have that to make me more sure!"
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