They know nothing, and the force has not picked up a pointer.

Strange, strange, that the job was so neatly done!" "What do you mean ?" quickly queried Ferris.
"Oh! Any gonoph can see that the man was murdered for the stuff!" resolutely said McNerney.

"He was no fellow to clear out! His life was clean as a whistle! I know all about him!" "How can you prove that ?" hotly said the excited lawyer.

"Because all the men on the force, from here to his rooms, and around town, knew him for a clean, civil, honest, steady fellow--one in ten thousand.

Thief, he?
Never!" said McNerney.