And who is he, I should like to know?
From what I see of him, not the sort to be about our place." "That's what we shall hear presently," said Spargo.

"They're going to search him." But Spargo was presently made aware that the searchers had found nothing.

The police-surgeon said that the dead man had, without doubt, been struck down from behind by a terrible blow which had fractured the skull and caused death almost instantaneously.

In Driscoll's opinion, the murder had been committed for the sake of plunder.

For there was nothing whatever on the body.