"On your return to town you went where?"
"To my rooms again and finished packing."
"Did that take you two hours?"
"No, but I had a lot of things to see to there."
"What?" asked Moxlow.
"Oh, papers to destroy, and things of that sort that kept me pretty busy until train-time."
"You walked to the depot?"
"Yes, I was too late for the hotel bus; in fact, I barely caught the train. I just had time to jump aboard as it pulled out."
"Excuse me a moment, North!" said Moxlow as he rose from his chair.
He quitted the room and North heard him pass down the hall.