Tell me this, Fisher; when you go out and leave money about do you lock your door ?" "No.

We don't have to do that this side." "Did you ever see Rollitt in here ?" "No." "Do you know that on the first half-holiday this term Rollitt nearly came to grief on the river ?" "What on earth has that to do with it ?" "Everything.

You heard of it?
Your young brother was with him, of course.

And you heard that he lost Widow Wisdom's boat over the falls." "Yes," said Fisher, suddenly beginning to see the drift of the cross- examination.
"And you heard that the very next day he bought her a new one for five pounds ?" "Yes, I did; but whatever right have you to connect that with the missing money ?" "Wait a bit.

You were away all that afternoon, weren't you!" "Yes." "I wasn't.