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"I can swear I recognize you as Murray Davenport."
"As the accuser, you'll have to support your statement with the testimony
of witnesses. You'll have to bring people who knew Murray Davenport. What
do you suppose they'll swear? His landlady, for instance? Do you think,
Larcher, that Murray Davenport's landlady would swear that I'm he?"
"I don't think so," said Larcher, smiling.
"Here's Larcher himself as a witness," said Bagley.
"I can swear I don't see the slightest resemblance between Mr. Turl and
Murray Davenport," said Larcher.
"You can swear you _know_ he is Murray Davenport, all the same."
"And when my lawyer asks him _how_ he knows," said Turl, "he can only
say, from the story I told to-night. Can he swear that story is true, of
his own separate knowledge? No. Can he swear I wasn't spinning a yarn for
amusement? No."
"I think you'll find me a difficult witness to drag anything out of," put
in Larcher, "if you can manage to get me on the stand at all. I can take
a holiday at a minute's notice; I can even work for awhile in some other
city, if necessary."
"There are others,--the ladies in there, who heard the story," said
Bagley, lightly.
"One of them didn't know Murray Davenport," said Turl, "and the other--I
should be very sorry to see her subjected to the ordeal of the
witness-stand on my account. I hardly think you would subject her to it,
Mr. Bagley,--I do you that credit."
"I don't know about that," said Bagley.
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