But this is a duty I owe a friend, a dead friend, to run to earth this murderer.

Do you understand now?
The fellow who did that shooting up at Bethune fifteen years ago had the same sort of a mark on his right hand as this one who killed Slavin.

That's why I'm after him, and when I catch up he'll either squeal or die.

He won't be very likely to look on the matter as a joke." "But how do you know ?" "I never told you the whole story, and I don't mean to now until I come back, and can make everything perfectly clear.

It would n't do you any good the way things stand now, and would only make you uneasy.