"I do."
"For what reason?"
"I've already told you that."
"To see that all was right about the bank?"
"Yes."
"Is that your business?"
"Not particularly. We had been spending the evening together, and happened to be passing, and I thought I would try the door."
"Mistake added to wrong doing."
Lies never yet availed any man in an emergency.
Better by far would it have been for the boy if he had confessed his fault and told the simple truth.