But when I saw him I knew. After that I wasted no
time. Since then we've been having a pretty scramble to get safely away
without giving any clues to the other men, and to put Scotland Yard upon
their track. They're down there now, and have got every man of 'em I dare
swear (and I hope they are keeping my friend Black Whiskers for me to
deal with). That is the cause of my lateness at the hearing of the case.
You can fully understand how impossible it was to be here any earlier."
The judge nodded. "Your statement against this man Borkins--?"
"Is as strong a one as ever was made," said Cleek. "It was Borkins
who--in a fit of malicious rage, no doubt--conceived the idea of
interfering with his master's work to the extent of inventing the means
to have Sir Nigel Merriton wrongly convicted of the murder of Dacre
Wynne. You have seen the revolver, the peculiar make of which caused it
to be the chief evidence in this gruesome tragedy. Here is the genuine
one."
He drew the little thing from his pocket, and reaching up placed it in
the judge's outstretched hand.
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