The whole success of their plan depended on causing this excitement. And we're dealing, obviously, with hardened professional criminals. and purposefully even as the starting point of the conversation. "And you didn't think this worth mentioning to me," I said heavily. Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in what about) denotes in a pejorative sense a. "Who were in the front two seats-those nearest the galley?" "Of course." She stared at me, wide-eyed. Who could have gone into the galley then -anybody in the front seats, I suppose?" "This was the men's washroom, I take it?" If you're an arsonist looking for a cast-iron alibi and want to be five miles away when the fire starts, it's the perfect answer." It's been used hundreds of times, especially in war-time sabotage. All you have to do is to crush the tube, break the glass, drop the tube in your chosen spot, walk away and after a predetermined time the acid that was in the glass eats through the shield, meets the other acid and starts a fire. In one compartment you have a free acid, in the other a different acid enclosed in a glass tube. You can get a little plastic tube with a central composition shield dividing it into two compartments. They all seemed to crowd down past the middle-" "Can you remember who went in there, say, any time up to an hour beforehand?" I always peek through the cabin door from time to time, and he was always there." "There way a funny smell-" she began slowly. It-it did seem unimportant, unrelated to anything.
She looked at me for a long moment before answering, and even in the fading light of the aurora I could see the understanding coming into her eyes.
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