“I suppose the newspaper boys know that I am on the case,” said Nick.
“Oh, yes—everybody knows it.”
“But they don’t know that I went to Mason Creek?”
“Well, I reckon they’ve guessed it. Newspaper reporters are good at that, you know.”
“Do they know that Low was under suspicion?[{26}]”
“Sure! They got that from the hotel clerk.”
“Humph!”
Nick was a little disgusted.
When he handled a case in his own way, hotel clerks and others were not allowed to tell what they knew, and he took pains that nobody should know too much, anyway, until he got ready to tell them.
“See here, Kerr,” he said earnestly, “I’d hold the reporters off for a time, if I were in your place.”