1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:08,160 Evidence by Murray Leinster. It was hot. My pony jogged listlessly along, 2 00:00:08,359 --> 00:00:13,119 without interest or animation, while I was only concerned with the problem of getting 3 00:00:13,199 --> 00:00:18,839 to shade and water, but especially shade. The sun was hot enough to 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,679 fry any one's brains in his skull, and my saddle burned my hand if 5 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:28,199 I touched it. Where the sun struck it, there was a trickling stream 6 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:33,119 of perspiration down either cheek, and a third stream down my nose. From 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,600 time to time I smudged the dust across my face in an attempt to stop 8 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,920 the streams, but the action merely interrupted their course. It was in this 9 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:49,039 peculiarly Texan atmosphere that I came upon Jimmy Calton. He was standing by the 10 00:00:49,119 --> 00:00:54,799 open hood of one of those mechanical miracles known as a Tin Lizzie, holding 11 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,920 a sooded spark plug and a cloth in one hand and attempting to clean it 12 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:06,319 with the other. He was swearing the while dispassionately in a curious mingling of 13 00:01:06,439 --> 00:01:12,239 good Anglo Saxon and Doby Spanish. Hello, Jimmy, I said listlessly. 14 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,239 He looked up and nodded, say you look hot, he observed, Come 15 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:21,920 on and ride aways with me. Lizzie. Here, I'll be running in 16 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:26,319 a minute, and you can tie your pony on behind. Going anywhere in 17 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:32,719 particular, I asked over to see the coroner. He's told me old Abe 18 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,640 Martin got shot the other day, and folks are saying Harry Temple done it. 19 00:01:37,239 --> 00:01:41,480 They got him locked up. Anyways, I dismounted stiffly and tied my 20 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,480 pony to the rear of the machine, allowing him plenty of lead rope. 21 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:51,680 Jimmy finished wiping the last of the spark plugs, apostrophizing the car. In 22 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:59,519 the meantime, you creakin growlin' spark plug fowlin blasted hunk a tin. He 23 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,359 finished lyrically and put down the hood. He went to the crank and turned 24 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,960 it half a dozen times. The engine caught sputtered and began to run with 25 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:15,039 a pretentious roar. Jimmy hastily reached for the wheel and adjusted the spark and 26 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:21,759 throttled and climbed in leisurely with a grinding and a lurch. We started off, 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:28,599 my pony following docilely behind. Yees ten tin tin, said Jimmy doing 28 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,639 mysterious things with his feet. I have scorned you, and I've flayed you. 29 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,960 But by the guy who made you, you are better than a big 30 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,639 car lunk a tin. We slipped into the car's second and highest speed and 31 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:47,080 began to run more smoothly. Jimmy looked behind to see that my pony was 32 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,599 all right, and began to roll a cigarette with his left hand while expertly 33 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:58,280 guiding the car around the numerous ruts and rocks in the roadway. I watched 34 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,960 the process of cigarette rolling without interest. I can't seem to get the neck 35 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,199 of that, I remarked, when he had finished and was licking the edge 36 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,199 of the paper to hold it in place, imitating, said Jimmy casually. 37 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:15,520 There ain't any way that everybody can do. Nobody else I know rolls them 38 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,199 like this. It's just easiest for me. You'll have to mess around till 39 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,280 you find a way that fits your fingers. I'll smoke tailor made, I 40 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:29,240 said, rather than bothered with learning, just like the new generation, said 41 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:35,039 Jimmy severely. Jimmy, it may be said, is thirty, but affects 42 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,039 the authority of a man of eighty, wanting everything done by somebody else, 43 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:46,439 else by machinery. They even want the thinking done, fam, it's too 44 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:50,800 hot to think down here. I took off my hat and wiped the moisture 45 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,719 off the sweatband. Jedgin by the little bit of it people do, Jimmy 46 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,439 remarked acridly. Most people agree with you. Most people look at thinking something 47 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:03,199 they was taught to do in schools, and as such, something to forget 48 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:10,240 as soon as possible from the folks that don't think about the spiggetty revoltosos just 49 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:15,759 across the border, and are feigned and surprised when the spiggottyes run off with 50 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:19,439 some of the cattle. Down to the folks that had rather buy cigarettes than 51 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:25,920 bother thinking up a way to roll them one handed for themselves. Everybody's just 52 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,720 the same. Why it wouldn't surprise me none at all if most folks told 53 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,079 the truth, just cause it's too much trouble to think up a lie. 54 00:04:33,759 --> 00:04:39,759 I accepted his rebuke in the matter of cigarettes meekly and said, nothing. 55 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,839 It's a fact, said Jimmy, with an air of mournful pity for a 56 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,639 race fallen so low. I saw in a book the other day that the 57 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:55,199 best lion is the lie that's near the truth. Ain't that ridiculous. That's 58 00:04:55,399 --> 00:05:00,639 just justifying laziness. If folks got the goods on you, you can't get 59 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,319 away from the truth, then it's all right to dilute the truth until it's 60 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:10,360 harmless. But otherwise a good lie beats the almost truth nine ways from Sunday 61 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,879 Only. It's a lot of trouble thinking up a good lie and fortifying it 62 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:20,040 with accumulative evidence. Jimmy rolled those two words off his tongue with some satisfaction. 63 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:27,480 A cumulative evidence like a good lie ought to have. He fell silent 64 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:32,199 for a while, doing marvels of steering in the avoidance of obstacles and depressions 65 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:38,399 in the really horrible road, and thinking, he said, suddenly, presently, 66 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:44,639 folks don't like thinking. Anybody with any sense of no, Harry Temple 67 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,759 wouldn't a shot old Abe Martin. Harry Temple has got a bank account in 68 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:54,120 the Farmer's and Ranches Bank, and it ain't in reason that he'd go and 69 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:59,279 shoot anybody to steal their role. Old Abe sold off six hundred steers and 70 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:03,319 got the money. He was old fashioned and didn't believe in banks, so 71 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:08,519 he took the money home with him, and somebody went and shot him and 72 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:13,240 took the roll. But Harry Temple with a bank account at the Farmers and 73 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,120 Ranches Bank. It ain't reasonable that he'd go and shoot anybody for to steal 74 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,480 the money. If he's any like I am, he's too busy wondering if 75 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:28,680 somebody is going to steal his money to go stealing somebody else's. Jimmy said 76 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,399 this last, with an air of virtue that made me smile. Jimmy's much 77 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:38,040 too good a poker player to be worried about his money. I know he 78 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,560 owns one small ranch he never goes near, bought out of the proceeds of 79 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,839 a colossal gain still remembered along the border. But they think he did it, 80 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,319 I asked, show they do, Jimmy said, scornfully. They's going 81 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,480 around saying they know he did. That's toro. Of course, one of 82 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:05,839 jimmy individualities as his habit of translating American slang into Adobe Spanish and using it 83 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:11,519 in his conversation. What are you going to see the coroner for? They's 84 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,360 holding an inquest, said Jimmy. I'm sort of goin to hornyin a little 85 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:20,439 I reckon. These folks are too lazy to do any thinkin' if I see 86 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:25,199 a chance, I'm going to do some head work for them. They is 87 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:29,519 a Martin's place right ahead. We turned in the gate and swung up to 88 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,000 the house. Half a dozen cars, most of em say make as Jimmy's, 89 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,040 clustered about the front, and there were a dozen or more ponies tethered 90 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:42,560 close by the porch and dozing in the baking heat. It was quite a 91 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,160 pretentious place, built in the old fashioned style of the days when a rancher 92 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:51,959 was almost a barren in his own right. Two big barns and a huge 93 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:59,160 stable behind the house almost dwarfed the dwelling proper and quite hid it from the 94 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,279 rear. Jimmy eased his car in among the others, snapped the switch and 95 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,199 alighted. Three or four of the men about the door nodded to him and 96 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:13,279 told him the inquest had not started, but that it would begin shortly once 97 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:18,720 he found that out. Jimmy plunged into an intricate and technical discussion of patented 98 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:24,759 attachments for his machine, and I drifted off into the house. It was 99 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,360 a very old house, and built with old fashioned disregard for space. I 100 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:35,480 gathered, however, that the house keeping done in It was but sketchy. 101 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:41,159 Half a dozen of his riders made at their headquarters with old Abe Martin. 102 00:08:41,879 --> 00:08:45,480 They bunked there, and a cook prepared the meals for all of them. 103 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,000 There was a long table with a checked red tablecloth on it. The room 104 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:56,080 was empty now except for buzz and flies where they had their meals. On 105 00:08:56,159 --> 00:08:58,679 the day of the shooting, I learned the men had all been gone away 106 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,080 on their duties, and the cook had gone into town for supplies, so 107 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:09,279 Abe Martin had been alone presently. I went out to look at the stables. 108 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 They were huge, but not much used. Three or four ponies were 109 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,559 in their stalls, and several more stalls seemed to be used from time to 110 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:26,399 time, but most of them were without signs of recent use. There had 111 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,559 been a time when the place was the headquarters of a busy ranch, but 112 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:35,120 since the time of fences, the activity had lessened, until only Abe Martin, 113 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:41,639 his half dozen riders, and the cook lived there. It was curious 114 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:48,240 to see the dwelling place, large in itself, dwarfed by its outbuildings. 115 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:52,039 A stir in the house called me inside. The inquest was evidently to be 116 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,399 more or less of an informal affair, but there was none the less a 117 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,480 determined than business like air behind it. All those men meant to get at 118 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:07,519 the bottom of the matter. The coroner seemed to be a conscientious individual who 119 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,519 took the evidence of the first witness with great exactitude, though he knew perfectly 120 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:18,639 well beforehand just what the testimony would be. The whole inquiry, as a 121 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,600 matter of fact, promised to be cut and dried, in spite of Jimmy's 122 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:28,919 announced intention of horning in the first witness was the cook who had discovered the 123 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,759 body. He had come back from town, entered the house and discovered his 124 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:37,399 employer dead on the floor of the hall. He had been shot through the 125 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:43,080 heart. A rider whom the cook had hastily summoned, corroborated his testimony and 126 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,320 added that the body was cold when he was called, proving that death had 127 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:54,120 occurred some time before. The evidence shows, said the coroner casually, that 128 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,399 Abe was shot when there wasn't nobody else in the house but him and the 129 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:05,279 murderer. The cashier, the farmer's in rancher's bank ain't here, But he 130 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:09,720 has give me the information that Abe had over four thousand dollars on him when 131 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:16,720 he was killed. That's gone. Evidently he was shot for his money. 132 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,399 It's part of the duties of a coroner's jury to uncover any evidence that will 133 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:28,080 help in solving the problem of who the murderer might be. Mister Joe Harkness 134 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:35,240 will take the stand. There was a movement of interest in the small crowd 135 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,159 packed into the one room I had managed to get beside Jimmy Calton, and 136 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:46,159 his face became extraordinarily mild and gentle. It hinted at some expectation of excitement 137 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,080 if I knew Jimmy. Everyone had heard Harkness's story before, so it was 138 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:58,720 simply a recapitulation. I ain't got a thing to say, announced Harkness bluntly, 139 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,519 except that I seen when Harry Temple come out of this here house about 140 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:07,399 three o'clock, just after Aide Martin was shot. I was having trouble with 141 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,399 my spark plugs down the road of ways when I seen Harry. He come 142 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,919 out of the kitchen door, looked all round as if he was looking to 143 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 see if anybody seeing, and then he went down toward the stables. He 144 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,960 went inside there. Then he come out of that and went over to the 145 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:26,960 quarters and got a drink at the pump by the door. I was wondering 146 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,960 what he was doing, but it looks to me like he was making sure 147 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,879 there wasn't nobody around that could have told that he'd been around. And there's 148 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:39,039 one mole thing when he come out of the house. He come out of 149 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,840 the kitchen doll. He was putting something in his breast pocket. I glanced 150 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:50,159 at Jimmy Calton. He was looking at Harkness with a gentle, placid smile. 151 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:56,000 His face did not change when Harry Temple stood up, pale beneath his 152 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:03,360 tand everything Harkness says, his soul said Harry Temple determinedly, every single word. 153 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,799 Only I didn't shoot old Abe. I come out here to see him 154 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,320 about selling him some yearlings. He wasn't here, so I went in the 155 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:18,440 kitchen to see if I couldn't leave wood with a cook. The cook was 156 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,399 missing, too, but I thought I heard somebody moving around somewhere, and 157 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:26,480 I went just where Harkness said, and just in the order he said. 158 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,000 He must have seen me first. When I come out of the kitchen. 159 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:35,519 When I couldn't find nobody, I cranked up and laughed. Harkness stood up. 160 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,519 I hate to contradict Harry, he said sharply, but he's made a 161 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:45,039 mistake. He didn't crank up and leave. He was driving somebody else's car, 162 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:50,360 and it had a self starter on it. Every Temple flushed slightly. 163 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:56,360 That's a fact, he acknowledged. I'd forgotten that I was driving a car 164 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,200 they lent me at the garage. I'd left my own there to have some 165 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:07,080 repairs made, of course, said Harkness sarcastically. Nobody suspects that you was 166 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,159 driving a strange car with strange tires, so they couldn't prove nothing on you 167 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,120 by the tracks. Jimmy put a question in a gentle voice. There's another 168 00:14:16,399 --> 00:14:22,320 question, he said, softly. What was Harry putting in his pocket when 169 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:28,519 Harkness saw him coming out of the house. I don't remember putting anything in 170 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,600 my pocket, said Temple, beginning to be worried. It was probably my 171 00:14:33,679 --> 00:14:39,960 handkerchief. There was a moment's silence. One or two of the men in 172 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:46,799 the room stirred uneasily. Jimmy called and smiled sweetly to himself. Mister corner, 173 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:52,120 he said, slowly, May I make an observation or two, it 174 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,679 looks like somebody ought to point out two or three facts. Go ahead, 175 00:14:56,759 --> 00:15:03,720 Jimmy said. The coroner seemed to be bothering him that so much seemed to 176 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:07,279 point to the guilt of Harry Temple. Temple did seem to be quite a 177 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,320 decent sort, and the coroner evidently hated to bring out so much to his 178 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:20,039 discredit without anything to counteract the impression thus made. Knowing Jimmy, he knew 179 00:15:20,159 --> 00:15:26,000 Jimmy would not interfere unless he thought things were going the wrong way, and 180 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,080 that meant in this case that he had something to say in Temple's favor. 181 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:37,799 Mister Cohner and gentlemen, said Jimmy formally, it don't seem hardly fit to 182 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:43,320 bring out all this he evidence against a man without any evidence the other way. 183 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:50,360 I want to point out two things about this here case. The first 184 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:54,879 is that Harry Temple has got money in the bank, and the second is 185 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,600 that he never disputed a single thing Hackness said about out him. You know, 186 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:07,559 and I know that a man with money in the bank ain't goin around 187 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,399 doin highway robbery and murder. He can't afford to. You Just think about 188 00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:18,200 that a while and here's something else to think about. Did you notice that 189 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:26,200 Harry Temple said right off that he'd done just what Harkness said. Now, 190 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,240 if he'd shot old Abe Martin, you know, he'd have tried to make 191 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:34,600 some of that stuff sound just a little less incriminatin'. He'd a said he 192 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:37,720 didn't go in the house, just to the door knocked, and he'd ha 193 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:42,759 tried to weaken everything. Harkness said just that way. But he didn't. 194 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:48,039 He's telling the truth so hard he can't seem to see. It's putting a 195 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:52,360 rope around his neck in spite of his beIN just as innocent as he says. 196 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:59,440 As for his putting something in his breast pocket, nobody puts money there, 197 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:06,319 and especially stolen money. But most everybody puts the handkerchief there. But 198 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,200 that ain't evidence, said the coroner, disappointedly. I've thought you had some 199 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:17,759 facts to give us. I'll give you one fact, Jimmy offered. Harry 200 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,359 Temple didn't shoot Abe Martin. Looky here, Harkness himself. Don't believe he 201 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,759 did, do you, he demanded, turning to that person. Harkness sat 202 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:33,319 stolidly in his chair. You heard what I said, he grunted. You 203 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,440 heard what I seen him do? Saw I do, Jimmy admitted readily. 204 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:44,119 But you know he didn't shoot Abe. Jimmy seemed to be making a fool 205 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,319 of himself. I tugged at his sleeve for him to sit down, but 206 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:53,480 he paid no attention. What do you mean, demanded Harkness suspiciously. Nothin 207 00:17:53,559 --> 00:18:00,319 whatever, said Jimmy, with a gentleness I suddenly recognized as dangerous. Nothing 208 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:06,799 whatever except what I said. You know Harry Temple didn't shoot Abe. You 209 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,680 mean to tell me I'm lyin, snapped Harkness angrily. No, said Jimmy 210 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:18,160 in a cooing drawl. Nothin so harmless. I'm accusing you of someth my, 211 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,279 damn sight more dangerous than lying. I'm accusing you of tellin the truth, 212 00:18:22,839 --> 00:18:30,000 the exact truth. There's a puzzled pause. I noticed, however, 213 00:18:30,079 --> 00:18:37,039 that Harkness was watching Jimmy with a curious alertness. It's always more dangerous to 214 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:40,720 tell the truth in a case like this, Harkness, said Jimmy, still 215 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:45,960 in that gentle drawl. You told the absolute truth about what you saw Harry 216 00:18:47,039 --> 00:18:52,279 do. And that's the most dangerous thing you could have told, cause there 217 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:57,759 ain't but one man could have told that, mister Corner. If you look 218 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:03,160 out of the window, you'll see just where Harry Temple walked down the kitchen 219 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:08,240 steps, just where he went back to the stables, just where he went 220 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:14,240 into the Big Bond, and just where he got a drink. And then 221 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,519 if you look, you'll see where he stopped his car so Harkness could see 222 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:25,480 that it had a self start on it instead of a crank. I saw 223 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:30,319 a light break on the coroner's face as he looked from place to place in 224 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:37,519 the yard behind the house. He faced about just as Jimmy deliberately pulled a 225 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:42,559 revolver out of his pocket. Harkness told the truth, said Jimmy, softly. 226 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,880 He told the absolute truth. But there ain't but one place you can 227 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,799 see all them things from, with all them bonds outside, there ain't but 228 00:19:55,079 --> 00:20:00,480 one place you can see the door of the stables, and the big Bond, 229 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:04,720 and the pump by the quarters and the kitchen door all at once. 230 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:11,680 And there wasn't but one man in the world who could have seen Harry Temple 231 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:15,880 do all of them things, Because there wasn't but one man in that place. 232 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:23,319 The only place you can see all them places from is this here room? 233 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,559 And the only man in the house when Harry Temple did them things was 234 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:33,559 the man who'd shot a Martin and hadn't had time to get away. When 235 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:40,240 Harriet Temple come driving in Harkness, Jimmy's voice was suddenly like steal. If 236 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:42,640 you pull that gun on me, I'll blow a hole right through the place 237 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:48,359 your brains ought to be. End of evidence.