"You gave him between forty and fifty dollars the first time?"
"Forty-six dollars, I think, was the exact amount."
"Could this have been the money which Ham Fishley saw the defendant counting in the hay-loft?"
"I have no doubt it was, as I fix the time from the testimony of the witnesses."
"Why did you pay the boy this large sum?" asked the justice.
"Because he had rendered me a very important service," answered the senator, coloring deeply.
"What was that service?" continued the magistrate.
"I had the misfortune to fall into the river, and the young man saved my life," added Squire Fishley, now very much embarrassed.
"Ah, indeed!" said the justice on the bench, nodding his head in full satisfaction.
"But the defendant refused to tell where he got the money, and the presumption was, that he stole it."