"No; but you see we put the body on the track just at the point where a little path leads to Coffey's house. We ought to have known better."
"Dot vos so. I'm surbrised at you, Parney."
"Then it seems that he left a package of sugar in the depot, when we sent him there that night in order to make sure of Way's movements. And the morning after the murder, he was fool enough to go and claim it."
"Holy Moses! vot an innocent!"
"But that isn't the worst."
"Father Abraham! what else?"
"He came to the city after he had sent home his sugar, and he was heard to remark by two or three persons that he was with Way three minutes before the freight train went through, but that he would not tell anything more about it for a clean thousand dollars."
"Did he say dot, Parney?"
"So I understand."
"So 'elp me gracious! I will kill him before I am a tay older."