that money and seems to me tain t thb flag ob exactly right to let him stand here and talk so about one that has been his best friend on i ve done everything i could for that boy tried to bring him up right and to day he s got more property than he had when his father died done the best i could for him squire and now you see what i for t mr having his feeling sat down and looked like a much abused man squire all i ve got to say is if the money mr showed here is the same that lost my uncle must have changed it when he was looking at it for i know i didn t steal the money i never touched it and never saw it said stoutly all i want is to have mr come here and tell what he knows about this business the prisoner sat down again with the feeling that he had at least raised a doubt in regard to his guilt i am entirely willing to continue the case until mr s attendance can be procured added squire though if mr is ready to testify that the money in mr s hands the op cape ann which he was paid to him by is composed of the identical bills he lost it is hardly necessary mr rose and seemed much embarrassed i think � that is to say � when i gave my evidence � i hope your honor don t think � i think i was a little too fast said he winding up desperately when he found he was making a mess of it you wish to correct your testimony said the justice with a smile i said just what i thought was true but on second thought i think i may be mistaken it didn t occur to me till spoke that the money had been out of my hands you can correct your statements if you wish added the magistrate i don t know as i want to correct anything more when the boy paid me the money and told me where he got it so that i was satisfied it was all right i just looked at the figures on the bills the national bank bills are all alike to me and all of em good so i didn t mind much about em i was just going to pay that money away for some thb flag or i bought when mr came along to find the boy i thought the proceeds of the sale of the boat were for the benefit of mr s church interposed squire bless you so they were but i had money enough in the bank to pay it i didn t know as i should see the minister for a week or two so i thought i might as well use the money i had in my pocket to pay for my lumber it would save me going clear up to the bank you see no doubt it was all right mr added the justice o it you may depend upon it said the boat earnestly � for he was not quite sure that he might not yet be accused of an attempt to from the church the proceeds of the sale but every one knew that mr would be sunk a thousand feet in the sea rather than wrong any person of the value of one cent i might have drawn a check for the lumber and i should have done so if i hadn t had that money in my pocket you see squire it would save me taking some steps the young of cape ann never mind that mr i am entirely satisfied with your explanation confine yourself if you please to the matter before the interposed the justice yes sir well sir mr came along and said he was after because he had stolen the money i was kind of struck up when i heard this and didn t think anything more about the lumber the fact on t is i haven t paid for it yet but mr knows fm good � no doubt you are mr but the question relates to the identity of the bills in your possession just so well sir mr went off in a boat after and i didn t hear anything more about the matter till this morning though i was afraid all of em would get cast away when it so yesterday that was one of the heaviest we have had in these parts since i was a boy we had another last night but it wasn t quite so heavy well i was afraid the boats would upset in that and i kept thinking of em for i was out once in a though it wasn t quite so heavy as the one we had yesterday noon but i ve observed the flag ob that these coming np from the westward after such a day � we do not care to listen just now to a on mr interrupted the justice you said you didn t look at the bills yesterday no sir i didn t say so fm on oath and i want to tell it just exactly as it was this time i did look at the bills but only to see the figures this morning mr here came over to see me about them bills he wanted to look at em and i let him have em didn t he change them demanded impatient under the long speeches of the worthy bless your soul i i don t know as he did and then again i don t know but he did i wasn t particularly what he did what did he do when you gave them to him asked anxiously fi r he was by this time almost certain that his uncle when he went into 