"You have the chain that was attached to it?"
"No, I hain't."
"Well, this chain, taken from you in Maryland when you were captured, is it not the same that you had on your watch?" and Will showed a gold chain of a peculiar kind of pattern, that had been taken, with other things, from the prisoner when he was captured.
"No."
"And you think Night Hawk Jerry stole it from you?"
"Yes."
"About six years ago?"
"About that."
"Well, tell me how you lost it."
"I don't know exactly, for I had it one afternoon, and when I went to wind it up that night it was gone."