"The Jew—he ought to have something about his clothes."
"Ah, yes. Sergeant, help us search the Jew's body: there ought to be a big pile of money on him."
They searched the body, and a trifle over $6000 was found.
"There must be more than that," said Old Spicer. "He had a very large sum of money before that $6000 was paid to him—I am sure of it."
"How much?"
"About $15,000, I should say."
"How'd he come by it?"
"If my suspicions are correct, he and Hawks were engaged, just before they left our city, in one of the boldest robberies, and in one of the most cowardly double murders ever perpetrated in this country."
"What! do you mean the Marsden affair?"
"I do."