Colonel Starbottle's Client

Book Excerpt:...ad."Nor anything about his being killed over at Fresno?" said the stranger, with a desponding implication that the interview after all was a failure."If--er--if you could--er--give me a hint or two," suggested the Colonel blandly."There wasn't much," said the stranger, "if you don't remember." He paused, then rising, he gloomily dragged his chair slowly beside the table, and taking up a paperweight examined it with heavy dissatisfaction. "You see," he went on slowly, "I kill...