And so the question hung poised, and I was expecting to see her dismissed from the stand, when the district attorney settled himself again into his accustomed attitude of inquiry, and launched this new question: "When you went into the stable to unharness your horse, what did you do with the little bag you carried ?" "I took it out of the cutter." "What, then ?" "Set it down somewhere." "Was there anything in the bag ?" "Not now.

I had left the tongs at the club-house, and the paper I had burned.

I took nothing else." "How about the candlestick ?" "That I carried in one of the pockets of my coat.

That I left, too." "Was that all you carried in your pockets ?" "Yes--the candlestick and the candle.

The candlestick on one side and the candle on the other." "And these you did not have on your return ?" "No, I left both." "So that your pockets were empty--entirely empty--when you drove into your own gate ?" "Yes, sir, so far as I know.