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With the clew offered by Frederick's secret anguish at the grave of Agatha, he could read the whole story of this detestable crime as plainly as if it had been written in letters of fire on the circle of the surrounding darkness.
"Will you pardon me, then, if I remind you that time is pressing? Even a half-hour gained to-night by the authorities may be invaluable. If you are able to supply any clew, the least hint of motive, the most shadowy of guesses at a personality behind this beastly crime, you will be rendering a great service." "Please, please, give me time to think.
Fearing lest my resolution might not be proof against the advice and solicitation of my friends, I cautioned him against giving my address, or any clew by which letters might reach me. This done, I addressed a short note to Mr. Blake, requesting to know the name of his solicitor, in whose hands the bond was placed, and announcing my intention of immediate repayment.
To the headquarters in the Denslow Bank came an increasing volume of information, to be duly docketed and filed. Some of it was valueless. Now and then there came in something worth following up. Thus one night Pink and a picked band, following a vague clew, went in automobiles to the state borderline, and held up and captured two trucks loaded with whiskey and destined for Friendship and Baxter.
"I can't guess. Tim Meadows, the man who helped me with the plowing last fall, was too honest to -no, it couldn't be Tim! Perhaps what's that you've got in your hand, Tom?" With a start, Tom looked down. Clutched in his right hand was a fragment of a man's coat collar and the shreds of a green and yellow striped tie. "It's a clew!" said he, with the air of a professional sleuth.
As this button has certain letters and marks, it is a valuable clew for the police." This proof of a struggle between the victim and the assassin made Saniel smile. Who could tell how long this button had been there? Suddenly he left his seat, and entering a copse he examined his clothing. Was it he who had lost it? But soon he was ashamed of this unconscious movement.
There appeared no foundations upon which to work, and while the certainty of Barron's return still remained with Joan as a vital guide to conduct, no other gospel than that which he had taught found her a listener. She refused to go to church, to Mary's chagrin and Uncle Chirgwin's sorrow; but he explained the matter correctly and indeed found a clew to most of Joan's actions at this season.
Now we were close to her bows, and we heard the great yard creaking and straining, and the dull flapping of the loose canvas of both tack and clew which had blown inboard. The ship lurched and staggered under the uneasy strain, but the tackle held, and we had her.
"Den, if dey were nod smuggled in, dey are somewhere on der records of der Custom House, ain'd id?" Mr. Latham snapped his fingers with a sudden realization of this possibility. "Schultze, I believe that is our clew!" he exclaimed keenly.
Stanley's skill as a leader was taxed to the utmost. Alternately coaxing the faint-hearted and punishing the insubordinate, he continued to lead them on almost in spite of themselves. So far they had heard nothing of Livingstone, nor had they any clew as to the direction in which they should go.
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