"Then nobody was present but your father?"
"No, sir."
"And where is he now?"
"My father is very ill, sir; and it gave him such a shock, that he was obliged to go to bed."
"Had my uncle nothing with him but what I have found in his pockets?"
"Nothing that I know of, sir."
"No papers?"
"No, sir."
"Go and ask your father if he saw any papers."
"I'm sure he didn't, sir, or else they would be here."