A bell boy was quietly questioned also.
He remembered seeing Hank Low leave the hotel office.
“’Twas just after he had gone up alone,” the boy said. “I remember, ’cause the clerk was going to send me up with him, and he saved me a trip upstairs by going alone.”
This was important, and Kerr asked a number of other questions as to how it happened that Low went up alone, and so forth.
Next he found a man who remembered seeing Low drive rapidly away.
This man did not know when he was being questioned that Low was suspected of murder.
“I says, ‘Hello, Hank,’ says I,” he told the detective, “and he said, ‘Hello,’ and got into his wagon.
“‘How’s things up at the farm?’ says I.
“‘Can’t stop to chin,’ says he, kind of mad, and he whipped up his critter, and went away. Never seen Hank in such a hurry.”