“Yes, except to look up the weapon. It’s a great help, always, to find the revolver.”
“Hoping to find the criminal’s initials on it?”
“Well, no, they don’t mark firearms in real life, as they do in story-books. But to find the weapon gives a lot of evidence as to where it was fired from, and what was done with it afterward, and to whom it belongs. Not that the owner is always the murderer. More often the reverse is true. But the weapon we want and want pretty badly. By the way, I’m told that young Appleby is out of the running for governor now that his father isn’t here to help him through.”
“More, I take it, because of his grief for his father’s untimely end.”
“Be that as it may, he’ll withdraw his name from the candidates.”
“Who told you?”
“I heard Mr. Keefe telling Miss Lane.”
“You hear a lot, Burdon.”
“I do, Mr. Allen. It’s my business to do so. Now, here’s another thing. About that garage fire.”
“Well, what about it?”