“Back again, eh?” said the proprietor. “You weren’t gone very long.”
“I believe, Mr. Linton, you said that fellow we were talking about purchased some tobacco and cigarettes?”
“So I did.”
“Can you remember anything about the cigarettes? Please try to think exactly of what happened when he asked for them.”
“Hum! Let me see!” The storekeeper meditated for a moment. “Oh, yes, I remember now! He asked me if I had any Doradas or Mimoras, or any other Turkish cigarettes. I told him No, we had very little call for anything like that. So then he took half a dozen packages of these,” and the storekeeper pointed to some cigarettes in his showcase.
“Thank you. That’s all I wanted to know,” answered Dave. “Good night”; and he hurried away to the automobile with Roger following.
“Well, what do you make of this?” questioned the senator’s son quickly.
“I think we have found another clue, Roger. That fellow asked for Doradas cigarettes. They are a Turkish brand, and come in a box having a blue and gold band around it—the same kind of cigarettes that Jasniff smoked when he and Merwell robbed Mr. Wadsworth’s safe.”
CHAPTER XXV
WHAT HORSEHAIR HAD TO TELL
“Then you think the fellow purchased the cigarettes for Jasniff?” questioned Roger, after our hero had made the declaration concerning the Wadsworth robbery.