Then turning to Jet:
"How long have you been a district messenger?"
"Two days."
"What time in the morning do you go on duty?"
"Seven o'clock."
"What was the first call you had to-day?"
"To No. — East Fourteenth Street."
"Tell me all that happened there, and remember If you try to lie I shall know it."
Jet, confused and bewildered by the strange position in which he found himself, did as he was bidden.
Just for an instant he believed it would be only just toward the man who had hired him, to repeat what he had been told to say, but then came the thought that he was virtually under arrest and the truth should be spoken at every hazard.