CHAPTER XV
REVELATIONS
The late afternoon edition of the evening papers were just out when Hetherwick and Matherfield reached Victoria. Matherfield snatched one up; a moment later he thrust it before Hetherwick, pointing to some big black capitals.
"Good God!" he exclaimed. "Look at that!"
Hetherwick looked, and gasped his astonishment at what he read.
MURDER OF ROBERT HANNAFORD.
FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD.
Hetherwick turned on his companion with a look that was both questioning and surprised.
"This is probably—no, certainly!—what Penteney referred to when he told Baseverie to look in the newspapers!" he said. "That was yesterday; it must have been in last night's papers, and this morning's. I saw neither."
"Wait!" said Matherfield. He hurried back to the bookstall and returned with an armful of papers, turning the topmost over as he came. "It's here—and here!" he continued. "Let's get a quiet corner somewhere and look this thing carefully over!"
"Come into a waiting-room, then," said Hetherwick. "Odd!" he muttered, as they turned away. "Who should offer a reward—like that, too!—who isn't concerned in the case?"