CHAPTER XVI

The Dogs Hear a Noise "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Abe Bellamy read the report of the inquest upon Creager without emotion. It meant no more to him than that the sum of four hundred and eighty pounds a year, which he had paid for many years, would now be saved to his pocket. It had been inconvenient and irritating to answer the interminable questions which the police had put to him regarding his acquaintance with the dead man; but that was all done with. It is a curious fact that the biza…