"Yes."
"Would you know it?"
"No. I was, to say the truth, too frightened to examine the instrument that was to shoot me."
"Then we have nothing but the admission and the testimony of the accomplices, who say it was a frolic," said Stewart.
"No frolic to me," cried Henderson. "Why then didn't they return the money?"
"They say they called and ran after you, and that you would not wait to get it back."
"Then why didn't they produce it to you?" said Henderson. "The money is appropriated."
"A circumstance," said the fiscal, "in itself sufficient to rebut the frolic. Yes, the strength of the case is there."
"So I thought," growled the man.
"You wasn't in liquor?"