Excerpt: ...anyhow." "But not so very fur, at that. What if he was here? Mind, I ain't a-sayin' one thing ur another, -but if he was contemplatin' a voyage, an' had fixed to be took aboard late at night, what better place to wait fur the ship's boat than just this here?" "But the money must have been handled here-taken out of this cover, and the cover thrown away. Suppose somebody had seen him display that money during the day; had shadowed him here, followed him to this room, taken him by surprise?" "No signs of a struggle ...
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Excerpt: ...anyhow." "But not so very fur, at that. What if he was here? Mind, I ain't a-sayin' one thing ur another, -but if he was contemplatin' a voyage, an' had fixed to be took aboard late at night, what better place to wait fur the ship's boat than just this here?" "But the money must have been handled here-taken out of this cover, and the cover thrown away. Suppose somebody had seen him display that money during the day; had shadowed him here, followed him to this room, taken him by surprise?" "No signs of a struggle, fur as I c'n see." "But a single blow with a black-jack, from behind, would do the business." "An' what about the-remains?" "The river is just across the street. This would occur at night, remember." Mr. Bud shook his head. "An' the load o' parcels-what 'ud become o' them?" "The criminal might convey them away, too, at his leisure during the night. They would be worth something." Evidently to test the resourcefulness of the young man's imagination, Mr. Bud continued, "But why should the criminal go to the trouble o' removin' the body from here?" "To delay its discovery, or create an impression of suicide if it were found," ventured Larcher, rather lamely. "The criminal would naturally suppose that a chambermaid visited the room every day." "The criminal 'ud risk less by leavin' the body right here; an' it don't stand to reason that, after makin' such a haul o' money, he'd take any chances f'r the sake o' the parcels. No; your the'ry's got as much agin' it, as the detective's has fur it. It's built on nothin' but random guesswork. As fur me, I'd rather the young man did get away with the money, -you say the other fellow'd done him out o' that much, anyhow. I'd rather that than somebody else got away with him." "So would I-in the circumstances," confessed Larcher. Mr. Bud proposed that they should go down to the saloon and "tackle the soup." Larcher could offer no reason for remaining where they were. As they rose to go, the young...
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