- John Richards: Mrs. Richards and I attended a party at Mayor Adams' house last night.
- Whispering Smith: We heard about it.
- John Richards: A decision was reached to promote a civic betterment program.
- George Romack: Civic betterment? What's that?
- Whispering Smith: George, you know what civic betterment is.
- George Romack: No.
- Whispering Smith: Remember them birdbaths the mayor's wife put it? We got the cleanest birds in Colorado Territory.
- George Romack: But the birds never used...
- John Richards: Never mind that!
- John Richards: I want all these men brought in for questioning... Smitty?
- Whispering Smith: Why?
- John Richards: We've got to do something! I know how you feel about Denton, but you've got nothing to go on!
- Whispering Smith: What's your natural reaction when the first words out of a man's mouth is he has an iron-clad alibi?
- John Richards: You're as stubborn as a mule, aren't you?
- Whispering Smith: I don't mean to be, Chief, but Claude Denton did benefit by his brother's death and he did come up with that big alibi unasked and he did have a key to that house.
- John Richards: And he was in Leadville at the time of the murder! Smitty, he's got an air-tight alibi. At least a dozen people in Leadville saw him have his supper, go up to his room and come down for breakfast the next morning.
- Whispering Smith: Yeah - and come down to breakfast ten hours later.
- John Richards: Are you trying to tell me that he could have ridden from Leadville to Denver and back again in one night? That's a good 120 miles. No horse could make that trip.
- Whispering Smith: Anybody ever try?
- George Romack: Boy, you were sure great! How did you make yourself look so much like Denton?
- J. Burton Hamilton: Makeup is one of the most important tools in the actor's kit.
- Whispering Smith: Well, you certainly are an artist with it.
- George Romack: Yeah, but that scheme you thought up to trip Denton wasn't so bad, Smitty.
- Whispering Smith: 'Fraid I can't take credit for that scheme, George. Someone else thought of it first about... How long ago was it Mr. Hamilton?
- J. Burton Hamilton: Two hundred and sixty six years to be exact, Mr. Smith, though I'm quite sure Mr. Shakespeare didn't write it for the benefit of the Denver police department.