"Now tell us all you know," said the Sénéchal.
And Peter ramblingly told how he and Tom had been drinking together the night before, and how Tom had started off home and he had gone to bed.
"Were you both drunk?"
"Well—"
"Very well, you were. Did you think it right to let your friend go off in that condition when he had to cross the Coupée?"
"I've seen him worse, many times, and no harm come to him."
"Well, get on!"
He told how Mrs. Tom woke him up in the morning, and how they had all gone in search of the missing man.
"Was it you that found him?"
"No, it was Charles Guille of Clos Bourel. But I found something too."