LIEUTENANT (trying to make his tone official by speaking sternly, as if determined to get at evidence)
You’ve seen him about the village every day?
PEATTIE
Sure—but—
LIEUTENANT
Just answer my questions: how has he behaved?
PEATTIE
I see him going into Pete Mellish’s and into Gus Hobbs’s—
LIEUTENANT (with heavy constabulary levity)
And—did he try to dynamite—er—Pete Jellyfish—or Corn Cob’s—whatever their names are?