"Impossible! You must be mistaken!"
"I know it, and I told him so, too!"
"You did! Didn't he kill you?"
"Not that I know of," laughed Fred. "I don't feel very dead, anyway; but though he had on whiskers the other night as the other one did, I knew his voice."
Young Sheldon did not think it best to say anything about the suspicion he had formed against Bud Heyland, for that was coming so near home that it would doubtless cause immediate trouble.
Nor did he tell how he was sure, only a short time before, that Jacob Kincade was the partner of Bud in the theft, but that the latter, who handed him the two hundred dollars, was relieved from all suspicion, at least so far as the lad himself was concerned.
"Have you told Archibald of this?" asked Aunt Lizzie, when Fred had repeated his declaration several times.
"What's the use of telling him? He would start in such a hurry to arrest him that he would tumble over something and break his neck. Then, he'd get the reward, too, and I wouldn't have any of it."
"We will see that you have justice," said Miss Lizzie, assuringly; "you deserve it for what you have already done."