“Yes, sair, that, too, I know. There are three old tires of what they call Royal Cord make—two on back and one on front. On the left front one is a good new Silvertown Cord, what I help him to change about a month before all these things have happen. For spare, he carry a all new Ajax. And that is all there is.”
“You’re perfectly sure that the Ajax wasn’t on?”
“Oh, surest thing.”
“When did you last see the car?”
“When I go down to the gate, round half-past seven.”
“And the Ajax was still on as a spare?”
“That’s what.”
“Did you see Mr. Bellamy again on the evening of the nineteenth?”
“Yes, that evening I have seen Mr. Bell’my again.”
“At what time?”