He gave his companion one of his half-apologetic looks.
"I'm not so sure, Mr.Allerdyke," he said.

"We may have--and that's why I wanted to see you by yourself.

Come round to the police-station." In a quiet room in the usual drab and dismal atmosphere which Allerdyke was beginning to associate with police affairs, Chettle produced the personal property of the dead man, all removed, he said, from the Station Hotel, for safe keeping.
"There's little to go on, Mr.Allerdyke," he said, pointing to one article after another.

"You'll remember that the man represented himself as being a Norwegian doctor, who had come to Hull on private business.

He may have been that--we're making inquiries about him in Christiania, where he hailed from.