“I wonder he hadn’t run away.”
“Well, you see, he didn’t know that a messenger had come in with a telegram just ahead of him.”
Kerr chuckled.
“This will be a great story for the newspaper fellows,” he said. “They’ve been here all the evening till about half an hour ago. I told them to come back later.”
Nick looked thoughtful.
He wondered if it would be necessary to give the honest farmer the shame of having it printed that he had been arrested for murder.
“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?”