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"He prompted the witness."

"What do you mean?

"Well, I mean I've cross-examined too many witnesses not to know when a third party is prompting them by signals—I didn't glance around at Ditmas, but then I didn't have to."

The banker was thunderstruck. "But, my dear Sharp, why—"

Mr. Sharp lifted both hands. "Now, Perry, I'll be damned if I know why!"

Mr. Northcutt seemed to shrink visibly. "Sharp, I wish you wouldn't swear. Can't you realize that God hears your every word?"

"Pardon me, Perry," the lawyer laughed apologetically. Then he arose and moved leisurely and with a distinctly graceful carriage out of the enclosure, through the lobby to the door. He stood there a moment looking up and down the shabby street of Irontown. Then he saw something that caused him to nod in a sort of sardonic agreement with his own prescience—Mr. Ditmas was walking rapidly up the street after Abner and was obviously in pursuit of the youth. Buckingham Sharp took his cigar from his mouth and stood looking and smiling rather ironically after the two.

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