"Yes."
"And you did take money from the Anderson National Bank?"
Morley squirmed and looked at each of the three in front of him before he replied to that.
"Yes," he said finally, swallowing hard, his voice high and strained.
"Good! That's the sensible way to look at it," Braceway jogged him with rapid speech. "We needn't bother any more about that tonight. How about the jewelry you pawned in Baltimore today?"
The prisoner licked his lips and fixed on Braceway a look that grew into a stare.
"You mean the rubies?"
"Well, yes."
"I didn't pawn them, and—and they were my mother's."
"How about the diamonds and emeralds?"