“I see.”
“A bullet passed through the man’s hat in a battle, or some sort of a skirmish,” Nick added. “He is a man of middle size, I judge, with dark complexion and black hair.”
“That answers the description the woman living opposite gave me,” put in Kennedy. “She saw him quite plainly when the two men came around the corner and entered the house.”
“She stated that his companion wore a beard, I think you said.”
“She did, Mr. Carter, and that he was well dressed.”
“It could not have been this man, then, unless he was in disguise,” said Nick, glancing at Taggart’s beardless face. “The disguise should be here, in that case, even though he removed it.”
“I have not seen it,” said Kennedy.
“Nor the suit case brought in by his companion?”
“No, sir. That is not to be found. I have looked through the house.”
“There must have been several men here, Nick, judging from the fight that came off,” Chick remarked.