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He must have been injured in some way bleeding profusely. Look at this handkerchief it is fairly soaked." I am sure that, at that instant, the same thought was in Godfrey's mind which flashed through mine, for our eyes met, and there was a shadow in his which I knew my own reflected. Then I glanced at Hinman. He was looking at the handkerchief thoughtfully, his lips tightly closed.
Holding up his wiry, claw-like hands, the old peddler worked the fingers convulsively. "Then how do you know you were robbed, Mr. Hinman?" Dick insisted. "Because the money is gone," replied the old man simply. "You searched the rags, and the surrounding parts of your wagon?" Reade asked. "Young man, you may be sure that I did." "And where were you going when we stopped you?" "For help."
"I owe some bills for goods, over at Hillsboro," replied Reuben Hinman, "and this trip was to take me toward Hillsboro. But now " He broke off, the strange, rending sobbing returning. "Perhaps we can help you, bad as the case looks," Tom suggested. "Try to tell us all about it, sir." "Where did you have the money?" inquired Dick.
They returned together almost at once, and Hinman was placed on the stand. He told of being summoned by Godfrey, and of the events which followed. He said that the murder had been committed about midnight, that death had been due to strangulation; and identified the cord and the blood-stained handkerchief which the coroner submitted to him.
Although not of robust health, he is enabled to get through a large amount of work by methodical habits and by a strict avoidance of injurious haste and worry. His leisure is spent in the enjoyments of his beautiful home and in the cultivation of a fine artistic taste which has been developed and gratified by a tour among the principal art centers of Europe. Hinman B. Hurlbut.
"You've got something to do before that," Godfrey reminded me. "We're to hear Miss Vaughan's story at ten o'clock. I'm taking it for granted," he added, with a smile, "that I'll be welcome, as well as Hinman." "That doesn't need saying," I retorted, and ten minutes later, we were on the way to Elmhurst.
She is still pretty nervous, so I gave her a sleeping-draught and waited till it took effect." Godfrey looked at him more closely. "Did she tell you anything?" he asked. "Not much," said Hinman; "I wouldn't let her talk. But she told me enough to let me guess one thing she's the bravest girl I ever knew or heard of!" "What do you mean?"
"Don't make any noise," whispered Prescott, "but we won't stand for that!" "We surely won't!" Darry agreed with emphasis. "Come on, now -soft-foot!" As the tramps jostled Mr. Hinman, upside down and yelling with fright, a sack containing the peddler's money rolled from one of the peddler's trousers pockets. "Shake him again! There'll be more than that coming!" jeered one of the tramps.
Four tramps looked on in solemn curiosity as they saw Darrin and Prescott lift a cot on which lay something completely covered by a blanket. Then Dick turned down the blanket, revealing the bruised, bleeding head of Reuben Hinman. "What do you men know about this?" Prescott demanded, eyeing them compellingly.
With the rays of the lantern thus concealed, the other three stood in darkness. "Hooray!" gasped Dave at last. Then rising, leaning over the side of the wagon, he called: "Mr. Hinman, I've found a wallet, with a lot of greenbacks inside. How much I don't know. Please count it and see if all the money is there intact."
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