All kids'll lie when they think they can make somethin' out of it." Shadrach grunted.

"Maybe so," he said, "but I ain't caught this one in a lie so far.

And I doubt if she's lyin' now.

Now, Mary-'Gusta, is there any way you can prove you was in that parlor, and--what's his name--David was there at the time you say?
Is there ?" Again Mary-'Gusta hesitated.

Her eyes wandered about the faces in the room, until their gaze rested upon the face of Jimmie Bacheldor.