"Who got up the plan to tie Bond to the trolley track?"
"Gus Plum spoke of it first."
"It ain't so!" yelled Gus Plum, leaping up, his face very red. "I didn't have anything more to do with it than anybody else."
"He spoke of it to me," added Seabold.
"Poole, what have you to say?"
"I—er—I didn't have hardly anything to do with it," said Nat, lamely, his knees shaking beneath him. "I—er—looked on—mostly."
"Jasniff, did you propose the plan?"
"No, sir," answered Jasniff, boldly. "I reckon Messmer and Jardell and Seabold hatched it up between them."
"So they did," put in Plum, maliciously.