To summon the
Commissary-General would be unnecessarily to waste the time of the
court. It follows that I must have been mistaken, and this I admit."
"But how could you be mistaken?" broke from the president.
"I realise your "difficulty in crediting, it. But
there it is. Mistaken I was."
"Very well, sir." Sir Harry paused and then added "The court will
be glad to hear you in answer to the further evidence adduced to
refute your statement in your own defence."
"I have nothing further to say, sir," was Tremayne's answer.
"Nothing further?" The president seemed aghast. " Nothing, sir."
And now Colonel Fletcher leaned forward to exhort him. "Captain
Tremayne," he said, "let me beg you to realise the serious
position in which you are placed."
"I assure you, sir, that I realise it fully."
"Do you realise that the statements you have made to account for
your movements during the half-hour that you were at Monsanto
have been disproved? You have heard Private Bates's evidence to the
effect that at the time when you say you were at work in the offices,
those offices remained in darkness. And you have heard Sir Terence's
statement that the documents upon which you claim to have been at
work were at the time in his own hands.
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