You've got to open negotiations with him for their purchase, but you can't do that so long as he thinks they may have something to do with the murder. When the question of the murder's out of the way, then the papers'll simply be papers and you can make quick work of 'em: another reason why you ought to arrest Oldbeg and get that settled."
"But my brother's positive Oldbeg had nothing to do with the murder, and whatever his interest may be, he's not going to let an innocent man suffer an unjust arrest. I'm confident, unless you can give him positive proofs in the matter, he'll not allow it to be done."
"Well," said the man sulkily, "I'm in your employ and shall obey orders, but if I was working on the case as a public matter, I'd have the arrest made and made quick."
Mr. Charles Hunter was obdurate. He declared that enough injustice had already been done in turning public suspicion against the man without a shred to hang it on, and he was not going to be a party to keeping it up.
"It'll take the man years to recover from it now,"
