'I say I know it.'
'But Abraham, what grounds have you for such assurance? Did you count the money at the Rose?'
'I don't care what you may ask or say. I brought the money here. If you have lost it, or it has been bewitched since then, I am not to blame.'
'Abraham, it must have been stolen on the road. There was no one here to take the money.'
'That is nothing to me. I say I laid the money all right there!' He pointed to the table.
'You may go, Abraham,' said Mehalah.
'Do you charge me with taking the money?' the old man asked with moody temper.
'Of course not,' answered the girl. 'We did not suspect you for one moment.'
'Then whom do you lay it on?'
'We suspect some one whom you met at one of the taverns.'