I have his note and was glad to accommodate him." "Don't you get enough from me, that you must ask the guests in my house to supply you with money ?" Radnor's flush deepened but he said nothing.

I could see by his eyes however that he would not stand much more.
"Then after you had helped yourself to the money, the bonds were stolen by someone else ?" said the Colonel.
"So it appears," said Radnor.
"And have you any theory as to the identity of the thief ?" Rad hesitated a visible instant before replying.

The flush left his face and the pallor came back, but in the end he raised his eyes and answered steadily.
"No, father, I have not.

I am as much mystified as you are." "And you heard nothing in the night?
As I said before, you are an excellent sleeper!" Rad caught an ironical undertone in his father's voice.
"I don't understand," he said.
"I am a trifle deaf myself, but still he wakened me .-- It's strange that you should be the only one in the house who could sleep through it." "Sleep through what?
I don't know what you're talking about." I cut in hastily and explained our adventure with Mose's ha'nt.
Radnor listened with troubled eyes but made no comment at the end.

His father was watching him keenly, and I don't know whether it was intuition or some knowledge of the truth that made him suddenly put the question: "You were of course in the house all night ?" "No," Radnor returned, "I was not.