Hector, however, determined to make his defense even stronger.
“I would like to ask Platt,” he said, “at what time this took place?”
“At three o’clock.”
“How do you know it was three?” asked the principal, sharply.
“Because I heard the clock on the village church strike three.”
“I would like to ask another boy—Frank Lewis—if he heard the clock strike three?”
Lewis answered in the affirmative.
“Where were you at the time?”
“In the playground.”
“What were you doing?”