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Would he commit deliberate perjury ? `` Quite true , '' he replied slowly . `` Mr. Stumpy was with me last night . We sat up in the library , smoking , and playing cards until after midnight , and then I showed him to bed . He could not possibly have committed the crime of which Strong speaks . '' `` Then the boy must be the guilty one hisself , '' said the farmer . `` And so young , too .