"All the more excuse for your leaving.
"You'll be round sometime to-day, sir, then ?" the man asked, taking up his hat.
"I shall look in for a few moments, for certain," Laverick answered.
"If you get a chance you must point out to me one of those fellows." Jim Shepherd departed.

There was a shouting of newspaper boys in the street outside.

Laverick sent out for a paper.

The account of the inquest was brief enough, and there were no witnesses called except the men who had found the dead body.

The nature of the wounds was explained to the jury, also the impossibility of their having been self-inflicted.