“Yes.”
There was a buzz in the court-room, which indicated that this point had told.
“And is it not true,” continued Squire Barker, “that this Jack Harvey and his crew have not yet returned, are still missing?”
The colonel said he believed such was the case.
Asked why he had not secured their arrest, he responded that he felt sure he was on the right track, as he would prove by his witness, Squire Brackett.
And Squire Brackett, nothing loath, was the next witness. Having brought out, what everybody knew, that the squire was a property owner and a man of importance in his own village, the county attorney asked:
“And where were you shortly after midnight on the night of September 10th?”
“I was passing the Hotel Bayview on my way to the shore.”
“What did you see as you neared the hotel?”
“I saw a light in the billiard-room window, and went to the window and looked in.”