“What name do you know him by?”
“John Richling.”
“Wasn’t he sent down by Recorder Munroe, last summer, for assault, etc.?”
“Yes. I got him out the next day. He never should have been put in.”
To the Doctor’s surprise the detective rose to go.
“I’m much obliged to you, Doctor.”
“Is that all you wanted to ask me?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Mr. Izard, who is this young man? What has he done?”
“I don’t know, sir. I have a letter from a lawyer in Kentucky who says he represents this young man’s two sisters living there,—half-sisters, rather,—stating that his father and mother are both dead,—died within three days of each other.”