“That it doesn't concern me. I may be wrong about the boy taking the bonds, but that doesn't involve me. There may have been another party.”
“You forget the testimony of the telegraph boy—that he saw you give the bonds to your friend there.”
“The boy told a falsehood!”
“I am in a position to confirm the boy's testimony,” said the detective.
Willis Ford gasped for breath and seemed ready to sink into the floor. What was coming next?
CHAPTER XXIII — JUSTICE TRIUMPHS
Mr. Graham turned to the broker and addressed further remarks to him.
“Your statement that four hundred dollars remained to be accounted for, led me to conclude that they would be found in the possession of the party who had abstracted the others. I therefore obtained a search warrant and visited the room occupied by that gentleman, whose name I believe is Willis Ford.”
This was an unexpected stroke. Ford did not speak, but kept his eyes fixed upon the detective in evident panic.