"None, sir," answered the official assignee and Mr. Greenwood simultaneously.
"What has become of the bankrupt's furniture at his private residence?" demanded a creditor.
"His landlord issued a distress for a year's rent the moment the bank stopped," answered Greenwood. "The amount due to this most hard-hearted and unfeeling landlord is a hundred and twenty pounds, and the furniture would not fetch more at an auction. I therefore, with the full concurrence of the official assignee, allowed that very harsh man to keep the goods."
A barrister, who had been retained for one of the creditors, then proceeded to examine Mr. Tomlinson.
"You allege that about ninety-four thousand pounds were abstracted from the bank by the fugitive cashier?"
"I do—or as nearly as I can guess."
"And yet, by this balance-sheet, I perceive that your liabilities are two hundred thousand pounds. Were you not insolvent when the robbery was perpetrated?"
"It would appear so, certainly."
"Then how do you account for that immense deficiency?"
"I can account for it in no other manner than by presuming that my cashier had carried on a systematic mode of plunder for some years past; but as I placed implicit reliance on him, I was never led to an investigation of my actual position."