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searches won' Hearing their conclusion
when lie caught sight of t ho knob of a
drawer that had rolled into u dark cor
ner .under the bunk. He fitted this to it
drawer of the desk. The finding of it
eMilently made him reconstruct his the
ories, for he went over the carpet once
more, pausing a long time under the un
shuttered window. Then he turned to the
body and lastly fixed his attention on the
bed. Heliind the pillow lay u book called
I'enw inkle, " face downward.
"Kead himself to sleep," said doc.
"Not much despair about that."
The conductor pushed open tho door
and stepped in hurriedly.
"Hay, doe, the evidence is getting to
bo the' sure thing against Knowles," he
exclaimed. He was seen creeping
through the sleeping car after midnight.
"Who binv him.'"
"Thompson . . . the ehap with
the rod head, next berth to this door. Ho
saw Knowlcs slip by, but did n 't think
anything of it then."
"Let's talk to Knowles," said doe.
WK were soon face to faco with the
suspected man. Mrs. Huckman 's
description, "sour-looking and shabby,"
fitted him very well. He appeared to be
about fifty, with stooped but powerful
shoulders, and he showed gray about the
temples, and in his stubblo of beard. In
the daylight he looked more than shabby,
his whole person was unkempt and neg
lected. At first sight I mistrusted him,
and every moment 1 spent in his com
pany I liked him and his shifty, vin
dictive, faco less. At first it seemed ho
would not speak to any purpose, but at
length Joe's friendliness and tobacco
thawed his reserve.
There, wero four of us in tho uncom
fortnblo privacy of the cook's galloy.
I ' ' Yes, ' ' said Knowles, " it 's truo I was
manager of tho Telvillo depot of tho
Giant Oil three months ago, and that
Huckman got mo fired on some liar's evi
dence. 1 saw him last evening and I told
him what I thought of him."
"To bo exact, you said, 'Look out for
yourself!'" interposed Steve, tho con
ductor. "You wero eavesdropping, were you!"
Knowlcs snarled. "Suppose I did say
something of that sort."
"Very good! Now, what about tho
second time you saw Buckmnn?" went
on Steve.
"I did not see him a second time."
Hero Joo spoke. "The truth is your
lMst card," said he imietly.
Knowles glared round like a trapped
nnimal. "Why are you asking mo all
theso questions!" ho cried.
"Because Btickman was murdered,
choked to death in tho small hours of this
morning."
Knowles gasped at the words. "God!
Ts that true!"
"I guess it's no news to you!"
snapped out Steve.
"What do you mean by that I"
"Wo know you passed along through
the sleeper just leforo ho was killed.
You wero seen. We can prove it."
I Knowles had gone dead white. "I
! swear I never saw Huckman but oneo
I last night."
"Then, what were you doing in tho
sleeper?"
Joo had stood silent during Stevo's
' questioning, and nt this Knowles turned
I to him.
I "I'll tell you just tho cold truth," ho
said. "I did go along. I was mad at
Huckman and 1 meant to see him and to
mnke another appeal."
' Then, why did n 't you seo him f ' '
"Hecnuso I couldn't. I tried, but the
door of his enr was locked."
" Locked f" cried Joe.
"That yarn won't carry you, for I
can prove it's a lie," sneered Steve.
"Tho door wasn't locked when I went
, alomr and found him dead. You won't
tell mo he got down to turn tho key and
then hung himself up again?"
"I'm speaking tho truth," reiterated
Knowles, "though you are all against
me."
Then, .Too nstonished us.
"I'm not ag'in you." said he. "I
know ns well as you do yourself that you
did not murder Buckmnn."
"Hah! Then who did it?" cried the
conductor.
"Tho man who locked tho door and
who was inside when Knowles went
along."
Steve thrust out his lip. "Is that so?
Well, until he's in handcuirs I'll make
sure that Knowles hero don't escape. "
"All right," said Joe. "Say, Mr.
Knowlcs, let mo have a match."
Knowles pulled a box from his pocket.
"Now lay your hand Hat on the
table," wont on Joe.
The large hand with its grimed and
jagged nails was placed palm downward
for our inspection.
"Look at the thumbs," said Joe.
There was no more said until we were
again alone with Steve.
"I'll undertake to smash any case you
get up against Knowles, Steve, so as a
jury of cotton-tail rabbits wouldn't
convict him," said November gently.
"I'd like to seo you do it!"
"Listen then. There was two kinds
of matches on tho lloor in the car, here
they are." Joe spread them on his palm.
"And hero's one out of Knowles' box.
Theso first two of wax were used by
Ittii'kmnu himself; this by the murderer.
They're neither of them Knowles' brand;
that's plain enough."
"That fact won't carry a jurv."
"Not alone," said Joe. "'But the
next one will. You saw the sharp broken
nails on Knowlcs' hand. The thumbs had I
'em nigh n quarter of an inch long. It's'
impossible to ehokc a man to death with
nails that length and not tear and scratch
tho skin of the throat, and you saw for
yourself that there is n 't a mark on Buck
man 's throat except bruises. That's a
proof would go with any jury."
Tho conductor looked a little sheepish. I
"1 give you best, Joe. Hut if it wasn't
Knowles, who in creation was it?"
TT WAS a man twenty years younger
than Knowles, very active and
strong. A superior chap, trims his nails
with scissors, and is at any rate fairly
educated. He is well acquainted with
this lino of railway. lie boarded the car
by the rear door when Huckman and his
wife wero asleep, at somo spot where tho
speed slows down. He was nfter the
report on tho Tiger Lily Oilfield. He
was searching for it when Buckmnn
woke and jumped at him."
"Why on earth didn't Buckmnn give
tho alarm?"
"Because ho tried to get to the bureau
without the other seeing."
"What for . . . to the bureau? "
" For his revolver. He'd left it in
thn drawer. And ho near got it, too. In
tho struggle the knob was tore off the
drawer."
' ' But there was n 't a revolver in that
drawer. I had a look in it myself! "
"That's so, but it was there till the
murderer took it."
"Why did he take it if he'd got Buck-
man dead already?"
"A man don't likely hang himself if
he's got a revolver handy that'll do the
business more comfortably. Tho finding
o' that revolver would may be have
spoiled tho notion of suicide. That fel
low did n 't mean to kill Buckman, but he
had to choke him to prevent his shouting.
And when he found he'd done it too hard,
like ns not he had a bad five minutes. But
he was full of cunning, and he hung him
up as a blind. Then, ho locked the door
and sat there in Buckman 's chair and
smoked one of Buckman 's cigars."
"What?" exclaimed Steve, "with
Buckmnn hanging there?"
"Sure! There was three cigar stumps.
Two of them Buckman had smoked
through a holder, but the end of the third
was all chewed. ... I tell you the
murderer sat there and smoked and
thought out what he'd do, for Buckman 's
deatli was awkward in two or three ways.
He sat there for nigh on twenty minutes,
and now and again ho'd go to tho window
that ho'd slipped the shutter from and
look out."
"Tracked him on the enrpet!" in
quired Steve, who was still a bit sore on
the matter of Knowles.
Joo grinned significantly. "Yes, and
found ho had wet mud on his moccasins.
That's how I first made sure it wasn't
you, Steve. Your soles were dry when I
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