And Clyde, nervous and fearful and physically very much reduced, now replied: "Well, it runs from Grass Lake to Three Mile Bay."
"And to what or near what other places in between?" continued Mason, looking over his shoulder.
"Gun Lodge. That's all."
"What about Big Bittern? Doesn't it run near that when it gets to the south of it?"
"Yes, sir, it does here."
"Ever notice or study that map before you went to Grass Lake from Utica?" persisted Mason, tensely and forcefully.
"No, sir—I did not."
"Never knew the road was on there?"
"Well, I may have seen it," replied Clyde, "but if so I didn't pay any attention to it."
"And, of course, by no possible chance could you have seen or studied this folder and that road before you left Utica?"