Nobby Goes in Slow and Comes out Quick Summary

Parker charges Cranton with the murder of Jeff Deacon. Cranton denies he killed Deacon but tells his story as well as Deacon's. After Deacon had broken out of prison, he hid in the woods and then later killed the soldier Cobbleigh and exchanged clothes with him to take his identity. Deacon had then been sent to the trenches, arriving during an intense battle and a retreat. Terrified, Deacon had run away and been found by Suzanne LeGros. When Deacon had learned that he was officially dead and the farm fell on hard times, he contacted Cranton. Cranton had been given the cipher and had helped Deacon return to England in disguise. Cranton had then come to Fenchurch St. Paul to meet Deacon and had gone into the bell-chamber in...