"Do not all the girls go to the cloak-room occasionally?"
"Yes, but there was something in her face and manner that fastened my suspicions upon her."
"What evidences of guilt did you detect?"
"I can scarcely explain—nothing very tangible. The evidences of guilt were found on her person, your Honor."
"Yes, so much has been clearly shown."
"And she was very reluctant to be searched, which would not have been the case had she been conscious of innocence."
The woman who searched her was now asked, "Did she shrink from search, in such a manner as to betoken guilt?"
"I can't say that she did show any fear of being searched by us," was the reply. "She refused to be searched in the private office of the firm."
"That is, in the presence of men? Quite naturally she did." Then to the floor-walker, "Have your relations with this girl been entirely friendly?"
"I am glad to say I have no relations with her whatever. My relations are the same that I hold to the other girls—merely to see that they do their duty."