If you struck this man and rifled the safe, tell me so at once.

There may be extenuating circumstances, you know." "I didn't do it," Fremont broke out.

"I hadn't been in the room a minute when Jimmie came in and accused me of the crime.

There is some mystery about it, for no man could get into this building at night unless he was helped in, or unless he hid during the day, in which case he would be observed moving about." Nestor smiled but made no reply.
"There has been no robbery," Fremont continued.

"There are negotiable bonds on the floor by the safe, and Mr.Cameron's watch and chain and diamonds are still on him." "Do you know," Nestor said, smiling, "that the points to which you refer are the strongest ones against you?
Tell me all about it, from the moment you came into the room." Fremont told the story as it is already known to the reader, Nestor sitting in silence with a frown of deep thought on his brows.