“Have you taken up any of your pay since you have been there?”
“Yes, sir.”
“How much?”
“I don’t know, sir.”
“Why don’t you know?”
“How should I? I’ve taken it at different times, just as I wanted it, and have kept no account.”
“Now, if you had had any wish to harm the prisoner, couldn’t you have raised twenty-five dollars to put in her trunk?”
“No, sir,” she replied, with virtuous indignation.
“Then you have not laid up any money since you have been there?”
“No, sir—only what Mrs. Naseby may owe me.”