“Acquaintance,” corrected Grant.
“It may have been so. I understood him to say friend.”
“You had no suspicions that anything was wrong?” asked the broker.
“No; I felt perfect confidence in the boy.”
Grant was rather surprised to hear this. If this were the case, Willis Ford had always been very successful, in concealing his real sentiments.
“How did you pay him?”
“In a check to his own order.”
“Have you collected the money on that check, Grant?” asked Mr. Reynolds.
“Yes, sir.”
“Have you paid it out to the party from whom you obtained the bonds?”