The Case of the Substitute Face Quotes

“Yes, I will,” Mason said. “It’s not generally known, but under the law a private citizen can make an arrest when a felony has in fact been committed and he has reasonable grounds to believe the person he’s arrested has committed the felony.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Substitute Face

“He was despondent,” Eves said, “so low he could walk under a snake’s belly on stilts.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Substitute Face