More than that, he had a ticket for that afternoon's ball game in his pocket and feared that he would not be let out in time to see it.

He therefore was quick with his answers, which certainly were ingenuous enough.

He had been looking at the model of a ship (which could be seen through an open door), when he heard a woman cry out as if hurt, from somewhere down the gallery.

He was running to see what it meant when a man came along who seemed in as great a hurry as himself.

But he got there first--and so on and on, corroborating Correy's story in every particular.