“Did you find Stone there?”
“Nope—no, sir. There wa’n’t nobody there.”
“Why did you go to the gym?”
“To peel off my togs. I was in a playing suit, you know. It didn’t belong to me; it belonged to the team, so I left it in the gym.”
“How long were you in the gymnasium?”
“Can’t tell; not a great while. It didn’t take me no longer than was necessary to git off my football suit, git into my own rags and leave. There wa’n’t nothing for me to hang round there for.”
“After leaving the gymnasium where did you go?”
“Lemme see,” hesitated Spotty as if in doubt. “I don’t seem to remember just where I did go.”
“Come, come, young man; of course you remember. You must remember. You’ll find it best to remember, I think. Where did you go?”
“Oh, I sort of poked along into the village.”