If the deceased had enemies, said these wiseacres, it was probable that he would have talked about them to the skipper.

But they forgot that the witnesses called at the inquest, including the mother of the dead man, had insisted that Bolton had no enemies, so it is difficult to see what they expected Captain Hervey to say.
After the funeral, the journals made but few remarks about the mystery.
Every now and then it was hinted that a clue had been found, and that the police would sooner or later track down the criminal.

But all this loose chatter came to nothing, and as the days went by, the public--in London, at all events--lost interest in the case.

The enterprising weekly paper that had offered the furnished house and the life income to the person who found the assassin received an intimation from the Government that such a lottery could not be allowed.

The paper, therefore, returned to Limericks, and the amateur detectives, like so many Othellos, found their occupation gone.