Witness: There was, sir.
Mr. White Lush: The night was Wednesday?
Witness: It were, sir.
Mr. White Lush: How and at what time did you become aware that your lodgers had run away?
Witness: When the last post come in. I got a letter, and the turn it gave me——
Mr. White Lush: That is immaterial. Have you the letter with you?
Witness: The way the perlice ’as been naggin’ at me for that letter——
Mr. White Lush: Have you the letter with you?
Witness: It’s lost, sir.
Mr. White Lush: Let me impress upon you that this letter might be an important link in the case. It is right and proper that the police should be anxious about it. Do you swear positively that you have lost it?