Ford laughed scornfully.
“Of course he would say so,” he replied.
“I propose to investigate the matter further,” said the broker. “Can you make it convenient to call at my house this evening? Possibly something may be discovered by that time.”
“Yes, sir; I will come, with pleasure. I have no feeling in regard to the boy, except that I don't think it safe to employ him in a business like yours.”
“I agree with you, Mr. Ford. One who is capable of stealing bonds from a private house is unfit to be employed in an office like mine.”
“Yet you retain the boy, sir?”
“For the present. It is not fair to assume that he is guilty till we have demonstrated it beyond a doubt.”
“I think there will be no difficulty about that, Mr. Reynolds,” said Willis Ford, well pleased at these words.
“I sincerely hope that his innocence may be proved.”
Soon afterward Mr. Reynolds went to the Stock Exchange, and Willis Ford returned to his routine duties.