‘Yes; he has a bad cold.’
Mrs. Stebbing opened the door and called ‘George,’ and on the boy’s appearance, Sir Jasper asked him—
‘Do you remember the morning of the 17th of last month—three days after the accident? I want to know whether you saw any one in the approach to the house.’
‘I don’t know what day it was,’ said the boy, somewhat sulkily.
‘You did see some one, and warned them off!’
‘I saw two little ca—two boys out of the town on the front door steps.’
‘Did you know them?’
‘No—that is to say, one was a fisherman’s boy.’
‘And the other?’
‘I thought he belonged to the lot of Whites.’