"Did you see anything in the least suspicious about anything he did?"
"I'm bound to say I didn't, at least, not to notice it."
"Had you any suspicions of him?"
"Not the faintest shadow of one, we were chums; I would as soon have suspected myself."
"So, except for what Captain Dodwell said, which was, after a fashion, corroborated by Mr. Noel Draycott, you had no reason to suppose that Mr. Beaton had been guilty of the slightest irregularity?"
"I suppose I hadn't, if you look at it like that."
"You would unhesitatingly have handed the pool to Mr. Beaton, without even the slightest feeling of having been ill-used?"
"Of course I would; he had won it; his hand was better than mine."
"He denied having done what Captain Dodwell stated?"
"Rather; as you said, he wanted to knock him down; he was as mad as a hatter."