Pot. No; we found nothing but printing-stock and some very shabby furniture, and the office-boy, and three compositors.
Mr. H. Did you arrest them?
Pot. No; we thought it better not to do so.
Mr. H. Did they oppose your search?
Pot. No.
Mr. H. What did they do?
Pot. Well, they took grinders at me and said, “Sold!”
Mr. H. Meaning, doubtless, that they had had an inkling of your search and had sold the arms?
Pot. So we gathered.
J. N. ( writing ). “They did not find the arms because they had been sold.”