"I say you were there; no matter how you came there."
"I was, sir."
"Did you see my trunk?"
"I did, sir."
"Was it open?"
"It was not."
"But you opened it," said he, angrily, as he doubled up his fist and shook it in my face with a horrid oath. "You stole fifteen hundred dollars from that trunk, Phil."
"I had fifteen hundred dollars stolen from my trunk, on the Ohio River."
"Did you? Well, it served you right."
"You don't seem to think so in your own case."