"I quite believe you.

What a nurse you would make! You say that you carried him down in the night--and then?
What did you do ?" "I laid him on the tail of a cart.

The carter was asleep.

I walked behind to the gate, for I was sure that when he was found he would be brought here, and that he would have care, and would get well." "Was it far to walk ?" inquired the Superintendent, delighted with the result of his efforts as a detective.

"You must have been very tired!" "What is it to walk all night, if one carries no load on one's head ?" asked Regina with some scorn.