Not being able to secure any further information from the man, the detective walked away.
Many thoughts crowded his mind and he asked himself innumerable questions in regard to the case.
The prison keeper had told him over the telephone that Lawrence had only ten dollars in his possession when he left Sing Sing, and the bartender at the Red Dragon Inn had informed him that the man who had been murdered had displayed a large sum of money when he paid for the night’s lodging.
“From whom had Lawrence received money?” the detective asked himself as he pondered over this. “He must have got money from some one.”
That was clear.
But the bartender might have been mistaken.
Nick told Danny to drive to a restaurant, where he procured an excellent breakfast; then he directed the chauffeur to make a dash up to the Grand Central Station, where he hoped to find some one who had seen Lawrence leave the train and had noted the direction in which he went.
What had Lawrence done from the time he left the depot until Pat Maguire saw him standing in front of St. John’s Church looking into the churchyard?
Would the detective be able to follow his footsteps?
Many would have looked upon such a task as Carter had set out to perform as hopeless.