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 bed and asleep when you came in, as you told Johnny you did?"

"Sure, but—Say, do you mean to tell me I didn't see—"

"Of course you didn't! But—"

"Then who did I see?" asked Laurie a trifle wildly.

"Who did I see?" countered Ned. "You say it wasn't you—"

"Me! Hang it, I went to bed at ten and wasn't awake again until I heard a noise and saw you—well some one coming in that window! Look here, if it wasn't you, why didn't you tell Johnny so?"

"Because I thought it was you, you poor prune!"

"What! But I'd said—"

"Sure you had, but I'd seen you with my own eyes, hadn't I?"

Laurie shook his head weakly. "This is too much for me," he sighed. "It wasn't you and it wasn't me but it was one of us! I pass!"

"But it wasn't one of us," exclaimed Ned. That's what I'm getting at. Don't you see what happened?" Laurie shook his head.