"Do you doubt my word ?" "If it wasn't you it was a man who looks very much like you," said Andy, pointedly.

"Will you tell me your name ?" "It's none of your business, boy! I never met you, and that settles it.
I'm in a hurry now, I've got to get to Ithaca, so I'll thank you to let me pass." And so speaking the stranger brushed forward.

Andy put out his hand, as if to detain him, but then changed his mind.

In a moment more the man was hurrying down the street.

He turned the nearest corner without looking back.
"I believe he is the same fellow, and I believe he robbed me!" cried Andy.
"Possibly he is, but you are not sure of it," answered the young major.
"And it would be foolhardy to have him arrested when you have no evidence against him." "He acted as if he was scared," came from Pepper.