“Then your client must be prepared to lose the whole amount.”
“It appears to me that a thousand dollars would be an adequate, not to say a handsome, reward.”
“What would it amount to divided among four persons, after paying me my commission?”
“Then there were four persons engaged in the theft?”
“Better say in the removal of the deposits. It sounds better.”
“Call it so, if you like. Doesn’t it occur to you that it hardly required as many as four persons to remove the tin box, weighing with its contents, not over two pounds?”
“I suppose one could have lifted it,” said Vernon, smiling.
“True; but do you know it is my theory that two persons were engaged?”
Vernon started, and scanned his companion’s face anxiously. Did he know anything? That was what he asked himself.
“You can form any theories you please,” he said, with a forced smile. “They won’t alter facts.”