noon on August
`` No , señor ; he is lying , '' and he used the phrase which has no exact equivalent in the English . `` He is a _ sin verguenza _ . '' `` Tell me , my friend , '' said Hillyard . `` Pontiana Tabor swears that José Medina was seen to enter the German Consulate before noon on August the 22nd . But on August the 21st Medina was in Palma , Mallorca ; he was seen there by a captain of the Islana Company , and a friend of mine spoke to him on the quay . If , therefore , he was in the German Consulate here on the 22nd , he must have crossed that night by the steamer to Barcelona . But he did not .