One of them windows was open--maybe the
one he sticked his head out of to call the man names--und I could hear
him laughing like he used to do when he was trying to make a jackass
of some peoples."
The coroner pondered. At length he said:
"This object that Spatola carried under his coat, now. Could it have
been a bayonet?"
"No, no," said Berg with conviction. "It vos too big. It vos bigger as
a half dozen bayonets already."
This seemed the limit of Berg's knowledge of the night's happenings;
a few more questions and then Stillman dismissed him. The door had
hardly closed when the telephone rang. After a few words, the coroner
hung up the receiver and turned to his visitors.
"I think," said he, with a smile of satisfaction, "that I've made the
police department sit up a little. They talked to all three of these
people before I had them, and didn't seem to get enough to make a
beginning. But just now," and the smile grew wider, "I've heard that
Osborne is on his way to arrest Antonio Spatola."
CHAPTER VI
ASHTON-KIRK LOOKS ABOUT
Berg was standing in the corridor waiting for the elevator when
Ashton-Kirk and Pendleton came out. The big German mopped his face
with a handkerchief, and said apologetically:
"A man can only tell what he knows, ain't it?"
Ashton-Kirk looked at him questioningly, but said nothing.
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