CHAPTER VII.—THE TRAIL OF MURDER.THAT night, returning home to Carmel Abbey, Larose was in a decidedly downcast frame of mind. He was almost certain that in the so-called Hatherleigh he had a most dangerous criminal to deal with, and a man who in all probability was responsible for one, if not two, murders. Yet he was equally certain he had not the very slightest proof of the committing of either crime which would carry conviction in any court of law.
Of course, Hatherleigh’s trail back to the little town of Burnham on the Grouch through the Old Mill at Great Bromley was quite clear now, but there it stopped and nothing absolutely certain was to be picked up on the way. Who would believe the seemingly fantastic story of the Mile End Road boot repairer about his brother having located the
