"I didn't have a thing to do with it." "No more had we," answered Fred.

"We just sailed to the place on my iceboat.

We can prove it." "We are friends of the Ford family; we can easily prove that, too," added Jack.

"Mr.Ford and his wife both asked us, when we were in this vicinity, to take a look and see if everything was all right.

We found a strange man in the mansion and we did our best to catch him, but he got away.