“Will Slater.”
“What kind of a man is he?”
“Honest as the day is long and never goes to sleep when he is supposed to keep awake!”
“Well, he was asleep on his job last night, although he kept walking around the block all night.”
“What do you mean?” sternly.
“I mean that whoever watched the Hathaway house was only watching with his legs and not using his head at all.”
“Well?”
“Some one got in the garage and ripped open the cushions in the Colonel’s old car. Of course, the lost money was not there but, if it had been, it would all have been got away with by now.”
“How do you know it wasn’t there?”
“Because I myself had already closely examined the cushions, examined under the seats and in the pockets, every place where papers might have been hidden.”