How much is there on hand ?" "You'll know presently." "I dare say--as soon as you've hit on a dodge for getting over that little deficiency of four or five pounds--eh ?" Fisher major looked up in astonishment.

How had the fellow heard about that?
Dangle laughed.
"You thought it was a snug little secret of your own, didn't you?
You're mistaken.

And you're mistaken if you think we aren't going to get at the bottom of it." Fisher major rose to his feet.
"Look here, Dangle," said he; "do you mean to insinuate that _I've_ taken the club money!" "I never said so." "Or that I was going to cook the accounts so that it should not be known ?" "I didn't mean _you_ were." "Whom did you mean?
Me ?" said Denton.
"No; I didn't say anybody," said Dangle, beginning to feel himself in a fix.

"All I meant was, we want to know what's become of the money ?" "You don't want to know more than I do," said Fisher major.

"I'd have handed over the money days ago, if I could only have found it." "Do you suspect any one ?" said Dangle.
"Suspect?
No.