“Send Hawkesbury here,” he said to Doubleday.
Hawkesbury appeared, and at Mr Merrett’s bidding, after being shown the cheque, repeated once more his story in the hearing of the stranger.
It did not vary from the former version, and included the statement that I had quitted the office at the time alleged.
“Did you leave the office at all?” inquired Mr Barnacle.
“No,” said Hawkesbury.
“Not at all?”
“No, I said so,” replied he.
“And no one came to see you here?”
“No.”
“Your friend Masham did not?”