"Not at first. I saw the latter part of it."
"What was the man Jarvis doing the last time you saw him?"
"Sprinkling the cinders in number eight."
"Humph! What did you tell the fool to do that for?"
"I tell him?" questioned Steve wonderingly.
"Yes."
"I did nothing of the sort."
"Didn't the pit boss warn both of you not to put water on the pit when it was hot?"
"He did not. I heard him utter some sort of a warning, but it was not definite enough for me to understand what he was getting at."
"Kalinski, what did you tell me about this man's having told his partner to hose down the pit?"