"We-ell," said Hiram thoughtfully, "that's rather jumping at conclusions without much evidence. But it might be."
"It is!" repeated Yancey Battick. "They told me Ad Banks went over to Loomisville to work."
"That is right," Orrin said.
"That," said Battick significantly to Hiram, "is where I lived before I came here. They robbed me of my Mortgage Lifter Oats over in that neighborhood."
Orrin looked at him curiously, but Hiram understood.
"You think they might have sent Ad over here to do this?" the manager of Sunnyside said thoughtfully.
"I'm sure they did."
But Hiram was not convinced. He began to see flaws in this theory.
"How did Banks set it off? How could anybody have set it off?" he queried.
"With a match," said Orrin, grinning faintly in the lantern light.