I should have said that these two were foreigners, the same kidney as the poor chap as was murdered.
I heard a word or two pass, and I sort of gathered that they'd a shrewd idea as to that meeting in the 'Black Post' between the man who was murdered and the little dark fellow." Laverick nodded.
"Jim Shepherd," he declared, "you appear to me to be a very sagacious person." "I'm sure I'm much obliged, sir; I can tell you, though," he added, "I don't half like these chaps coming round making inquiries.

My nerves ain't quite what they were, and it gives me the jumps." Laverick was thoughtful for a few moments.
"After all, there was no one else in the bar that night," he remarked,--"no one who could contradict you ?" "Not a soul," Jim Shepherd agreed.
"Then don't you bother," Laverick continued.

"You see, you've been wise.

You haven't given yourself away altogether.

You've simply said that you don't recollect any one coming in.