CHAPTER XIII.
AMBLER APPLEYARD Fullaway laid the telegram down on his table and looked from it to the detective.
"Shot dead--High Street--this morning ?" he said wonderingly.

"Why!--that means, of course, in broad daylight--in a busy street, I suppose?
And yet--no clue.

How could a man be shot dead under such circumstances without the murderer being seen and followed ?" "You don't know Hull very well," remarked Allerdyke, who had been pulling his moustache and frowning over the telegram, "else you'd know how that could be done easy enough in High Street.

High Street," he went on, turning to the detective, "is the oldest street in the town.

It's the old merchant street.