I did not bring that blue-book into this room.

I did not take it out of 'Horace's'.

But 'Horace' found it on this table, poked under a pile of books.

Now, then, what do _you_ know about it ?" Tom stared in wide-eyed amazement for a moment.

"You--you mean to say you think I did it!" he gasped finally.
Steve shrugged his shoulders.
"But--but you were here when I came back from downstairs, Steve! You saw that I didn't have it!" "I didn't see anything of the sort.