—the thief," he substituted directly, "merely had to cut the bell-wires, wreck the lighting switch, and take the box from your door?"
"Yes. That is it!"
"I see now, Mrs. Varris," he comprehended, addressing the mother, though he spoke to the girl. "So therefore you sent for me before I could be arrested to give me a chance to—"
"Please wait a moment more, Mr. Preston," the girl checked him. "You have not heard quite all."
"When we asked for the box from the office this morning, and the proprietor discovered the method by which we had been robbed, he immediately communicated with the police. The officers came and examined us. They first asked us whom we had told of our carrying the money as we did. We had, truthfully, to name you."
"Of course."
"They asked, then, to whom we had mentioned our intention of sending the box to the office. Again we had to name you."
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