A smart thief would say that a fellow who takes a special tug off the steamer and a special train to town was a man worth robbing.

How the thing was done I don't know--that's for your police to find out--but I reckon that whoever killed him did it for his cash." The reporter sighed.

He was, after all, a little disappointed.

Mr.
Coulson was obviously a man of common sense.

His words were clearly pronounced, and his reasoning sound.