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purchased a revolver You already had your service weapon, but to shoot

a man with a bullet from that would be to make the hunt of the police

for the murderer absurdly simple"

The boy made no answer

"Let us suppose," Bray went on, "that last Thursday evening at half

after six you called on your brother in his rooued You saw him and

him alone between you and the fortune you needed so badly Then--I a--you noticed on his table an odd knife he had brought

froun You seized it--"

"Why suppose?" the boy broke in "I'ht--I did it! I killed et the whole

business over as soon as may be"

Into the face of Inspector Bray there ca ain

and again,--in the stress and storm of this eventful day It was only

too evident that this confession came to him as a shock I presu the boy had put up a

fight Policemen are probably like that

"My boy," he said, "I ao with one of my men--"