Information was taken to the hotel office at once, and the clerk went out.
He immediately identified the body as that of a guest of the house, the Rev. Elijah Judson.
CHAPTER X.
WAITING FOR NICK CARTER.
In the first horror of this discovery nobody thought of murder.
It was taken for granted that the unfortunate clergyman had been leaning from his window, and lost his balance.
It was not long, however, before men began to look at the thing in another way.
The minister’s body was left on the walk under guard of policemen until an undertaker came to take it away.
Up to that time no friend of the dead man had appeared.