"What you jolly well know isn't evidence. We must thresh this thing
out. To begin with, where did you last see it?"

"When I put it in my pocket."

"Good. Make a note of that, Pillingshot. Where's your notebook? Not
got one? Here you are then. You can tear out the first few pages, the
ones I've written on. Ready? Carry on, Evans. When?"

"When what?"

"When did you put it in your pocket?"

"Yesterday afternoon."

"What time?"

"About five."

"Same pair of bags you're wearing now?"

"No, my cricket bags. I was playing at the nets when my uncle came."

"Ah! Cricket bags? Put it down, Pillingshot. That's a clue. Work on
it. Where are they?"

"They've gone to the wash."

"About time, too. I noticed them. How do you know the quid didn't go
to the wash as well?"