"Had a walk just before," says the policeman.
"Yes. She wasn't five minutes in the garden," says mother.
"And when you saw the watch," says the policeman to me, "was between the walk and the five minutes in the garden, eh? When you went upstairs to take off your hat, eh?"
I said "Yes."
"You didn't take the watch into the garden with you?"
Here was the point where the real pull came. If I said "Yes," how could I shield Walter? The temptation was too much for me, and no wonder, for I'd put myself in the way of it, and couldn't look to be kept from evil.
"No," I said, under my breath.
But I had waited a moment, and the colour came red and hot to my face. The policeman looked hard at me.
"You saw the watch just before you went into the garden," says he. "How did you happen to see it? Did you open the drawer?"
"Yes," I said.