“How did he feel just before he keeled over?”
“Didn’t he hear any noise?”
“Did anybody make him drink anything that might have had poison or knock-out drops in it?”
These were some of the questions from Ned, Harry, Jolly Bill and the two police chiefs when Bob finished reading the document.
“Wait!” begged the young detective. “One at a time. I’ll ask him the questions and let him write the answer. We’ll get along faster that way.”
“Let’s see, first, how he got doped, if he was,” suggested Chief Duncan. So Bob wrote that question.
“No one gave me anything that I know of,” was the written reply. “And the only thing I drank was some buttermilk.”
“I had some of that and I know there was nothing wrong with it,” testified Bob. “But did you see any one around your cabin just before you fainted and were robbed?”
“I saw no one,” wrote Hiram, “It was very strange.”
“I’ll say it was!” exclaimed Harry.