“You’re hard to convince, Partner,” he said with offensive familiarity, “but we’re on the right track, sure enough. There’s another hiding-place somewhere, and all we’ve got to do is to find it. Millington wasn’t a fool and upon second thoughts I believe he wouldn’t have hidden all that money where he hid these unimportant things which he would have known could be found easily if anyone actually came to look for them. Why, everyone would look under the floor-boards as the very first hiding-place, just as we have done!”
“But there isn’t a shred of evidence to show that he ever came here,” snarled Hardacre, savage, too, in his disappointment.
The ex-convict quietly picked up the gun and held it out to Hardacre for inspection. He made his voice as careless as he could. “See those rough init
