Chapter 79

“But we had to move slowly. We had no proof; we had the story and the motive, but what else? Not a fingerprint, or a track, or a weapon! Nothing to hang the case on, and he knew it. We went through his belongings with a fine tooth comb, and found nothing. We could jail him for forging that will, but we wanted him for four murders!” “Four?” “Amos was murdered,” he said. “He was shoved into the river and he couldn’t swim. _Because_ he couldn’t swim,” he amended that. “Four murders and three murderous assaults, and we…