"
McLoughlin motioned to Hanford to reply. "A fake?" repeated the
latter contemptuously. "How about the affidavits? There's no
negative. You've got to prove that the original print stolen from
Travis, we'll say, is a fake. You can't do it."
"September 19th was the date alleged, I believe?" asked Kennedy
quietly, laying down the bundle of metric photographs and the
alleged photographs of Travis. He was pointing to a shadow of a
gable on the house as it showed in the metric photographs and the
others.
"You see that shadow of the gable? Perhaps you never heard of it,
Hanford, but it is possible to tell the exact time at which a
photograph was taken from a study of the shadows. It is possible
in principle and practice and can be trusted. Almost any scientist
may be called on to bear testimony in court nowadays, but you would
say the astronomer is one of the least likely. Well, the shadow in
this picture will prove an alibi for some one.
"Notice. It is seen very prominently to the right, and its exact
location on the house is an easy matter. You could almost use the
metric photograph for that. The identification of the gable casting
the shadow is easy. To be exact it is 19.62 feet high. The shadow
is 14.
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