And Jimmie looked white and scared.
"N-no, sir, I--I guess not," she faltered.
"I guess not, too," declared Con, with a sarcastic laugh.
But the Captain was suspicious.

He had seen the child's look.
"Hold on," he commanded.

"There's more to this than a blind man could see through a board fence.

Mary-'Gusta, was there anybody else except David in that parlor along with you?
Was there ?" Mary-'Gusta looked at the floor.
"Yes, sir," she faltered.
"So?
I kind of had an idea there might be.

Who was it ?" Again the look and then: "I--I ain't goin' to tell." Con laughed once more.