"Adin Dunham was stopped on his way home yesterday, and robbed of a thousand dollars!"
"You don't mean it?" returned the agent. "Why I paid him that money with my own hands."
"So I supposed. Why didn't you give him a check?"
"He preferred the bills. Besides, as you have no bank at Waterford, he could have done nothing with the check."
"That is true; I didn't think of that. But it's a pity as it happened."
"Can you tell me any of the details of the robbery?"
"I talked with Dean Dunham, the nephew, only this morning. I have not seen Adin himself."
"What does the boy say?"
Squire Bates repeated what he had heard from Dean, though he might have gone more into details from his own knowledge. This, of course, he could not venture upon.