In producing several banknotes for Miss Belton's identification, Mr Cruickshank seemed to profit by the silence.

Miss Belton identified them without hesitation, as she might easily, since they had been traced to her possession.

Asked to account for them; she stated, without winking, that they had been paid to her by Mr Walter Ormiston at various times during the fortnight preceding the burglary, in satisfaction of debts at cards.

She, Miss Belton, had left Elgin for Chicago the day after the burglary.

Mr Ormiston knew that she was going.