[The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Willoughby Captains CHAPTER TWENTY THREE 13/18
Do you suppose I goes to bed like you kids at eight o'clock? No fear.
Why, I don't get my supper at Joe Blades's till ten." "Then you found some one in the boat-house when you went there, after supper, to go to bed ?" "There you are, all wrong agin.
How do you suppose I'd find him when he got out of the window ?" "Then he came in and went out by the window ?" asked Riddell. "Why, you don't suppose he could come down the chimbley, do you ?" retorted Tom, scornfully, "and there's no way else." "You had the key of the door all the time, of course," said Riddell. "In course.
Do you suppose we leaves the boat'us open for anybody as likes to come in without leave ?" "Then it was seeing the window open made you know some one had been in ?" continued the captain. "Wrong agin! Why, you aren't been right once yet." "Do you mean you really saw some one there ?" "How _could_ I see him when he was a-hoppin' out of the winder just as I comes in? I tell you I didn't see him.
You couldn't have sor him either, not with all your learnin'." "Then you've no idea who it was ?" "Ain't I? that's all you know." "Why, you say you never saw him.
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