A GUNSHOT WOUND
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"What hass been happening here, my friendt?" he inquired curiously.
"Have you never heard, Max," Hereford dryly demanded, "of any one charging another with doing a thing which he, the accuser, admits could not have been done in the way he accuses?"
"Many times," Max returned blandly. "Wherefore"
"Wherefore what?"
"If you haf done it do not fail to maintain that it must haf been done in the way they accuse; but if you haf not done it, then show them it must haf been done otherwise."
"You, too, Max?" Hereford said still more dryly.
"Too—what, my friendt?"
"Implicate me?"
"In what, my friendt?"
