"
"Then the money, five pounds, has not been got," said the fiscal. "This
is a great want; for without it, I don't see what we can make of the
case."
"Money here or money there, I've lost it anyhow; and if he isn't hanged,
I'll not be pleased."
"Was there any but one man engaged in the affair?"
"Just one, and plenty."
"He had a gun?"
"Yes."
"Would you know it?"
"No. I was, to say the truth, too frightened to examine the instrument
that was to shoot me."
"Then we have nothing but the admission and the testimony of the
accomplices, who say it was a frolic," said Stewart.
"No frolic to me," cried Henderson. "Why then didn't they return the
money?"
"They say they called and ran after you, and that you would not wait to
get it back."
"Then why didn't they produce it to you?" said Henderson. "The money is
appropriated."
"A circumstance," said the fiscal, "in itself sufficient to rebut the
frolic. Yes, the strength of the case is there."
"So I thought," growled the man.
"You wasn't in liquor?"
"No."
"Are you ever?"
"I don't deny that in town I take a glass, but seldom so much as to
affect my walking; never so much as make me dream I was robbed of money,
and that too money gone from my pocket."
"Where do you carry your money?"
"In my waistcoat pocket.
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