A detective shrewdly suggested that the murderer might have shaved, and he claimed great credit for this timely hint; but no matter, the search for the black-whiskered man was continued.

Dave Kittymunks was arrested in all parts of the country, and the head-line writer, whose humor could not long be held in subjection, began to express himself thus: "Dave Kittymunks captured in St.Paul, also seized in New Orleans, and is hotly pursued in the neighborhood of Kansas City." Witherspoon, sitting by his library fire at night, would say over and over again: "I told him never to keep any money in the house.

He was so close, so suspicious; and then to put his money in a safe that a boy might have knocked to pieces!" And it became Mrs.Witherspoon's habit to declare: "I just know that somebody will break into our house next." Then the merchant's impatience would express itself with a grunt.

"Oh, it has given you and Ellen a rare chance for speculation.
We'd better wall ourselves in a cave and die there waiting for robbers to drill their way in.

It does seem to me that they ought to catch that fellow, I told Brooks that he'd better increase the reward to fifty thousand." Witherspoon and Brooks called at Henry's office.