He must have received my first message that same night.

In my judgment he was glad of some excuse to leave New York and determined to take the first train West.

His quarrel with John, coupled with his disgust of the company he kept, caused him to draw up this will hurriedly.

He left the club intending to pack up and take the first train." "And was killed before he could do so ?" "Possibly; but if that dead man had no scar on his chest, he was not Frederick Cavendish; he was an impostor; some poor victim deliberately substituted because of his facial resemblance.

Tell me, if it was Fred who was murdered, what became of the money he was known to have in his private safe?
What became of the original copy of the will he had in his pocket when he left the club ?" She shook her head, convinced that his argument had force.
"I--I do not know." "Yet these things are true, are they not?
No money, no will was found.
There is but one reason possible, unless others entered after the murder and stole these things.