"You might have entered and taken the will away without his knowledge, then?"
"It might have been done, though I assure you we had no such intention."
"When did you arrive at the house?"
"At 3:45."
"And Floyd had left a little before 3:30. He had waited for one hour, without the courtesy of an appointment from you. Then because he chose to leave the house, and did not wait upon your pleasure, you infer that he must have committed arson and procured the death of seven of his fellow-creatures. That will do."
"Charles Checkerberry."
A railroad conductor stepped forward to take the oath.
"What names!" said Ecks to Wye. "It's like a census of Bedlam Proper."
But Wye did not answer. He was wondering if he could weave the safe explosion into the plot of his next melodrama.
"You are a conductor on the Southern railroad?" asked the district attorney.