"Eddy is willing to swear to it."
"Yes, I saw him," said Eddy Harmes, a teamster.
"Eddy was driving over to the Eastport market for garden truck."
"Randolph Newell saw him, too," put in another in the crowd. "Saw him not over five minutes after the explosion."
And so the talk ran on, while Ralph was taken inside of the building, there to be examined by Postmaster Hooker and Squire Paget.
The squire grew pale when he heard what Jack Rodman had to say.
"Didn't you find any—any registered letters?" he asked of the constable.
"Only found the valise, sir."
"But that's enough," put in Uriah Dicks. "That and the knife clew."
"Seems to me you are mighty anxious to have the boy found guilty," cried Bart Haycock, angrily. "What makes you so down on the boy?"