“Is this street part of your beat?”
“It is all of it, just now.”
“Ah, indeed.”
By this time the policeman seemed to have made up his mind about them.
“Reporters?” asked he.
“Something like that. I understand that you had quite an exciting time of it hereabouts last night.”
“Yes; but say, how did the papers get it? The captain said the matter was to be kept quiet.”
Kenyon laughed carelessly.
“Oh, the papers have many surprising little ways of getting information. Now, the body that was carried out of 98, for instance. Nothing has been heard of it?”
“No; and it has a nasty look. It’s the kind of thing that we police don’t like. The detective department has it now.”