"Sorry for him?"
"Yes; I felt sure he had not taken the money."
"Seems to me this is a new streak, Percy," said the squire. "I thought you didn't like Bert Barton."
"I am not intimate with him, for he is only a working boy; but all the same I don't want him convicted when he is innocent."
"It is a mystery to me who could have taken the other twenty-dollar bill," said the squire. "Can you think of anybody?"
"No; how should I?" returned Percy, nearly swallowing a spoonful of soup the wrong way.
"There are so few people in the village, that it must be some one we know."
"Perhaps old Jones didn't lose any money, after all."
"There is no doubt on that point. The stolen bill has been returned to him in an envelope by Sam Doyle."
"Is that so?" exclaimed Percy, counterfeiting surprise. "Why, it must be the same envelope Sam showed me."