After entering the dressing room, Mr. Penton nodded for them to proceed. Steve went right to the point.
"We have been down in the skip shaft."
"On seventeen platform?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did you discover anything of consequence?"
"Mr. Jarvis has a saw that we found there. It belongs to one of the timber-men, and was stolen from him the day before the accident."
The superintendent pricked up his ears at this.
"I learned that fact this morning. He doesn't know that we have the saw. We found it where it had evidently been thrown by the person who used it. And here is something else, sir."
Steve laid the broken pieces of plank on a table. Mr. Penton picked them up, turning them over in his hands, pausing when he discovered the marks of the saw, then he glanced at Steve.