“Wait,” said Nick.
He led the young man to the desk and asked for a room.
Shortly afterward, they were in a room alone, and Nick took the parcel.
Unfolding the paper with which it was wrapped, he found a photograph.
It was a clean-cut picture of the Rev. Mr. Judson’s fall from the hotel window.
Nick looked earnestly at the picture.
“How did you happen to get this?” he asked.
“I am an amateur photographer,” was the reply. “I work in the office at the top of the building just across the Street from the hotel. Yesterday I got hold of some new plates that a friend had advised me to use, but I had no time to try them till this afternoon.”
“And you tried them on this scene?” asked Nick, quickly.