CHAPTER XI

IT is very difficult after the event to reconstruct the character of a criminal. The people one consults who came into contact with him are biased one way or the other, and they like to believe in their own perspicacity. One man will say, “It was obvious from his expression,” and another will tell you that “he was a plausible scoundrel, very plausible. He would have taken almost anybody in, but he didn’t deceive me. There was something about him—something not quite trustworthy. It might have been in the way he look…