"You aided and abetted him in what he did."
"Indeed! As how?"
"I happen to know that you were more than once his companion when he was in the society of certain notorious women, with whose character you were undoubtedly as well acquainted as he was."
"And if I was--what then?"
"If, on more than one occasion, A is in the company of B when B is in the act of committing a crime, what is the inference we draw as regards A?"
"You really are a remarkable young man!"
"More. On more than one occasion you have borrowed money from Mr. Patterson."
"We have had business relations for many years."
"Did he ever borrow money from you?"
"No; because he did not do the class of business I did."