The detective stepped forward.
“We have overlooked these!” he exclaimed, pointing to the clothes.
“I was just looking at them,” the police captain remarked. “It seems to me that they must have been disturbed by the murderer.”
“They were,” Carter rejoined, holding up the dead man’s vest for the police captain to inspect. “There are bloodstains upon this and the other garments.”
“Search the pockets.”
For some minutes the detective was engaged in making the search. When he finished he looked at the captain.
“Nothing,” he said tersely.
“The murderer secured everything,” the police captain rejoined, in a tone of disappointment, “he has not left a scrap of paper by which the dead man could be identified.”
“Everything is gone.”
“It is too bad.”