"Washington, were you outside near the building when the shots were fired ?" she asked in a soothing tone.
"Yessah--yes'm." "Did you see any one near the window ?" "Yessah--yes'm.

Ah--Ah sawed er man hidin' in de bush dere." "Did you see him shoot ?" asked Elfreda.
"Ah did not, but Ah heard him shoot, den w'en Ah looked, Ah didn't sawed him no moah." "Who was it ?" demanded a mountaineer.
"Ah doan know.

Ah didn't sawed him close 'nuf, an' den Ah didn't sawed him at all." "He oughter be strung up anyway," suggested a voice.
"Don't get excited! Don't get excited," urged Lieutenant Wingate, when it became plain that the mountaineers were determined to make further trouble.
"Gentlemen, Lieutenant Wingate has given you good advice.

That colored boy is not to be blamed for what has occurred here," declared Miss Briggs, getting to her feet.

"It is not necessary for you to take my word for that, nor the boy's.