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Dead Men’s Money

CHAPTER VI
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"We'll have to find a name for him before we can wire to Dundee or anywhere else.

But if we can trace a name to him in Peebles--" "Aye, that'll be the way of it," said Murray.

"Let's be getting all the information we can during the day, and I'll settle with the coroner's officer for the inquest at yon inn where you've taken him--it can't be held before tomorrow morning.

Mr.Lindsey," he went on, "what are you going to do as regards this man that's lying dead upstairs?
Mrs.
Moneylaws says the doctor had been twice with him, and'll be able to give a certificate, so there'll be no inquest about him; but what's to be done about his friends and relations?
It's likely there'll be somebody, somewhere.

And--all that money on him and in his chest ?" Mr.Lindsey shook his head and smiled.
"If you think all this'll be done in hole-and-corner fashion, superintendent," he said, "you're not the wise man I take you for.


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