from which he read as follows

"I protest against the prisoner's insolence to my son," exclaimed Colonel Ross, angrily. "It is a question he has a right to ask," said the justice, calmly. "Did you see the keys which your father left on his desk?" asked Harry. "No," answered Philip, ill at ease. "I should now like to question Colonel Ross," said Harry. The Colonel, with a curl of the lip, took the stand again. "Really," he said, "it looks as if my son and I were on trial instead of the prisoner." "Colonel Ross, you must be aware that I am according Harry no unusual privileges. It is as a lawyer--his own advocate--that he questions you." "Go on," said the Colonel, haughtily. "Colonel Ross," continued Harry, "do you generally keep a list of the numbers on your bonds?" "Of course!" "Can you furnish the numbers of the bonds that were taken from you?" "I can give the numbers of the whole ten bonds. I don't know which were taken. I have not compared my list with those that remain." "Have you the numbers with you?" "Yes, I have them in my notebook." "Will you be kind enough to repeat them so that the court may take them down?" "Certainly! though I don't see what good that will do." "It is of material importance," said the justice, nodding approval. Colonel Ross drew from his inside coat pocket a large wallet, and, opening it, took out a memorandum, from which he read as follows: "The numbers run from 17,810 to 17,817, inclusive." "Then the stolen bonds are somewhere between those numbers?" said Harry. "Of course." Harry turned to the constable. "Mr. Rogers," he said, "have you the bonds which were found at our house?" "Yes," answered the constable.