He opened his mouth to say something, but he changed his mind and--with a visible effort--shut it again.
"Terry," I asked, "how _did_ you find out about the chicken thief?
I confess I don't understand it yet." He shrugged his shoulders and laughed.
"Nothing simpler.

The trouble with you people was that you were searching for something lurid, and the little common-place things which, in a case like this, are the most suggestive, you overlooked.

As soon as I read the story of the crime in the papers I saw that in all probability Rad was innocent.

His behavior was far too suspicious for him really to be guilty; unless he were a fool he would have covered up his tracks.

There was of course the possibility that Mose had committed the murder, but in the light of his past devotion to the Colonel it did not seem likely.
"I had already been reading a lot of sensational stuff about the ghost of Four-Pools, and when the murder followed so close on the heels of the robbery, I commenced to look about for a connecting link.