There could be no advantage to any one if Walter Hine died.

But then why the cocaine?
Why the incident of the lighted window?
"Yes," he said, in perplexity, "I can corroborate that.

It happened that my friend John Lattery, who was killed in Switzerland, was also connected with Joseph Hine.

He also would have inherited; and I knew from him that the old man did not recognize his heirs.

But--but Walter Hine had money--some money, at all events.