"I recognize the bill," said Mr. Baker. "I will take it, if you please, and you can look to him for another."
"Very well," said Tracy, puzzled by the words, the motive of which he did not understand.
"Perhaps you will explain this," said Mr. Baker, turning to Roswell. "It seems that you took this bill."
Roswell's confidence deserted him, and he stood pale and downcast.
"The key I presume, belonged to you."
"Yes, sir," he ejaculated, with difficulty.
"And you dropped it into Mark's pocket,—thus meanly trying to implicate him in a theft which you had yourself committed."
Roswell was silent.
"Have you taken money before?"