"Why do you not reply, Mr. Prescott?"
"I didn't understand, sir, that you had asked me a question."
Captain Bates flushed. He hadn't asked a question, in question form, and he saw how neatly this cadet had "caught" him. But that only served to increase the suspicion of both officers present that Mr. Prescott was a very clever witness who was successfully contriving to keep something back.
"Mr. Prescott, do you now know who was responsible for the monument affair of last night?" insisted the O.C.
"I don't know sir," replied Dick, putting all proper emphasis on the word.
"Yet you suspect?"
"I suspect one man, sir," Dick responded without attempt at concealment.
"Is the one you suspect a cadet?"
"Yes, sir."
"His name?" broke in Lieutenant Colonel Strong.