“What on earth has that to do with it?”
“Everything. You heard of it? Your young brother was with him, of course. And you heard that he lost Widow Wisdom’s boat over the falls.”
“Yes,” said Fisher, suddenly beginning to see the drift of the cross-examination.
“And you heard that the very next day he bought her a new one for five pounds?”
“Yes, I did; but whatever right have you to connect that with the missing money?”
“Wait a bit. You were away all that afternoon, weren’t you!”
“Yes.”
“I wasn’t. I happened to come over to look for you, and found you were out. The only fellow I met in the house was Rollitt. He’d just got back, and I met him at the door of this room. There, you can make what you like of it. Even a Classic knows what twice two makes.”
And he turned on his heel and left the room.
“There’s goes a thoroughbred cad for you,” said Denton.