The false will was on stained paper, like the other instruments, but the others were stained with age, while the one you introduced into the lot was colored with chemicals." Big Bob nodded and looked with astonishment at the boy.
"And Mr.Cameron came back and found you three in the suite ?" Nestor went on.
Big Bob shook his head.
"You left before he returned ?" Another shake of the head, then the man whispered: "Scoby was watching for him outside." The night watchman seemed like a man about to throw a fit.

He writhed about the floor, regardless of his injured leg, and tried to reach the speaker.
"And Scoby struck him down ?" asked Nestor.
There was a strained silence in the room as they all waited for the reply, already suggested by Big Bob's previous words.
"Yes," he whispered.

"Scoby struck him down with a billy." The accused man dropped back against the wall and his eyes closed.

It was plain that the words, together with his previous exertions and pain, had taken the nerve all out of the fellow.
"But Scoby did not do this of his own notion," Nestor went on, remorselessly.

"It was done by your orders.