"Tell me! Dash it all, I put you on to the case. I'm your employer."

"You won't touch me up if I tell you?"

"I will if you don't."

"But not if I do?"

"No."

"And how about the fee?"

"That's all right. Go on."

"All right then. Well, I thought the whole thing over, and I couldn't
make anything out of it at first, because it didn't seem likely that
Trent or any of the other fellows in the dormitory had taken it; and
then suddenly something Evans told me the day before yesterday made it
all clear."

"What was that?"

"He said that the matron had just given him back his quid, which one
of the housemaids had found on the floor by his bed. It had dropped
out of his pocket that first night."

Scott eyed him fixedly. Pillingshot coyly evaded his gaze.

"That was it, was it?" said Scott.