"I don't recall his words."

"Or the substance of them?"

"No. I had the impression, very strongly."

The coroner reproved him tartly. "Please confine your testimony to
facts and not to impressions, Mr. Blanton. Do you know at what time
Mr. Cunningham left the City Club?"

"At 8.45."

"Precisely?"

"Precisely."

"That will do."

Exit Mr. Blanton from the chair and from the room, very promptly and
very eagerly.

He was followed by a teller at the Rocky Mountain National Bank. He
testified to only two facts--that he knew Cunningham and that the
promoter had drawn two thousand dollars in bills on the day of his
death.

A tenant at the Paradox Apartments was next called to the stand. The
assistant district attorney examined him. He brought out only one fact
of importance--that he had seen Cunningham enter the building at a few
minutes before nine o'clock.