Moxlow's examination, however, was along lines quite different from
those he had anticipated. The prosecuting attorney's questions wholly
concerned themselves with the sale of the gas bonds to McBride; each
detail of that transaction was gone into, but a very positive sense of
relief had come to North. This was not what he had expected and dreaded,
and he answered Moxlow's queries frankly, eagerly, for where his
relations with the old merchant were under discussion he had nothing to
hide. Finally Moxlow turned from him with a characteristic gesture.

"That's all," he said.

Again his glance wandered over the room. It became fixed on a grayish
middle-aged man seated at Gilmore's elbow.

"Thomas Nelson," he called.

This instantly revived North's apprehensions. Nelson was the janitor of
the building in which he had roomed. He asked himself what could be
Moxlow's purpose in examining him.

There was just one thing North feared, and that--the bringing of Evelyn
Langham's name into the case. How this could happen he did not see, but
the law dug its own channels and sometimes they went far enough afield.
While this was passing through his mind, Nelson was sworn and Moxlow
began his examination.

Mr. Nelson was in charge of the building on the corner of Main Street
and the Square,--he referred to the brick building on the southeast
corner? The witness answered in the affirmative, and Moxlow's next
question brought out the fact that for some weeks the building had had