There was a kind of a lump in _my_ throat now.
I said, "Skinny gave you the money so we ought to believe him when he says he just put the key in another pocket and forgot about it." "Why, surely," he said, "I'm not suspecting him of anything.

Neither is anyone else.

The only thing that puzzles me is, how the key happened to be on the deck where he found it.

We swabbed the decks so thoroughly before leaving Bridgeboro.

One of our boys might have dropped some change and never known it But how did the key happen to be there?
We know how it happened in Alfred's pocket, but how did it happen on the deck?
We scouts claim to be observant, and yet that key was right on the deck from Bridgeboro all the way down to St.George.