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146 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Bykov? The truth is that Hiss took the rug in place of the money that Chambers owed him. He still has it on his floor. Is that the action of a man who is hiding something?
Mr. and Mrs. Chambers testified that Mrs. Hiss visited them in a cottage in Smithtown. They said that Mrs. Hiss met the landlord and his sister. But these people, living at a cottage one hundred feet away, testified that they never saw her.
If there is anything in this case that has been definitely proven to have never taken place, it is this weird story about the Peterborough trip. Hiss could not have been in Peterborough on August 9 because he was in Chestertown, Maryland, that day. How do we know? Because we have his bank deposit made that day to the Chestertown bank. The bank opens at 9 A.M. The bank is two blocks away from where the Hisses were staying. Hiss walked there and deposited the check. We also have Thomas Fansler's testimony that he was with the Hisses in Chestertown on Monday, August 9- And Mrs. Davis never saw the Hisses or Chamberses at Bleakhouse. The Peterborough trip never took place.
Chambers said Hiss loaned him $400 to buy a new car. On November 19, 1937, Mrs. Hiss withdrew $400 from the bank to buy things for the new apartment. She didn't make a record of it because there
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