“Can you furnish the numbers of the bonds that were taken from you?”
“I can give the numbers of the whole ten bonds. I don’t know which were taken. I have not compared my list with those that remain.”
“Have you the numbers with you?”
“Yes, I have them in my notebook.”
“Will you be kind enough to repeat them so that the court may take them down?”
“Certainly! though I don’t see what good that will do.”
“It is of material importance,” said the justice, nodding approval.
Colonel Ross drew from his inside coat pocket a large wallet, and, opening it, took out a memorandum, from which he read as follows:
“The numbers run from 17,810 to 17,817, inclusive.”
“Then the stolen bonds are somewhere between those numbers?” said Harry.