Jimmie hadn't thought of that question. It stumped him. “I—I'd rather not say,” said he.
“I command you to say,” said the lieutenant.
“I'm sorry, sir, but I couldn't.”
“You'll have to say before you get through,” said the other. “You might as well understand that now. You say you found three?”
“It might have been four,” said Jimmie, playing still safer. “I didn't pay any particular attention to them.”
“You sympathize with these doctrines,” said the lieutenant. “Do you deny it?”
“Why, no sir—not exactly. I sympathize with part of them.”
“And you found these leaflets in the gutter, and you didn't take the trouble to count whether there were three or four?”
“No, sir.”
“There couldn't have been five?”