"How long did you stay at the office after Mr. Brancker left you there last evening?"
"Certainly not more than twenty minutes."
"You were the last of the officials to leave the Bank?"
"The last, except Mr. Hazeldine."
"You have seen the blood-stains on the floor of the office where you and Mr. Brancker generally work; you have seen the marks inside the drawer, and the smears outside; have you any knowledge whatever as to how they came there?"
For a moment Ephraim's lips twitched curiously, but the answer when it came was clear and distinct.
"I have no knowledge whatever on the point."
"Did you see or speak to the deceased at all last evening?"
"I neither saw him, nor spoke to him, after his departure for London the previous forenoon."
"Then how do you know that he was at the Bank last evening?"