Moreover, a most careful search has failed to reveal any other weapon.

Now, someone entered this room and fired the shot.

Yet all those clerks maintain that no one has been in here and that they heard no shot, although the door stood open all the while the merchant was in the office.

Somebody has secreted the pistol with which the shooting was done and it might be well to search all the clerks." "That would be a useless procedure," replied Britz.

"There is no conspiracy of silence.