The sight of that loose cash would have been quite enough for a man of
Signor Malipizzo's discernment. Muhlen had not bolted. Nor was he the
kind of man to lose his life by an accident. Not he! Muhlen was careful
of his skin. Ergo, his disappearance was due to something which came
under the second class, section, or category. He had been done away
with.
The magistrate, thinking of those summer holidays, began to be really
vexed; so did Mr. Parker, who soon learned the result of these
enquiries and regretted that his mourning retirement prevented him from
issuing forth and telling everybody what he thought of this new
disgraceful scandal. His English blood revolted at the idea of a
harmless tourist, a prominent member of the Alpha and Omega Club, being
callously murdered. Would these people never get civilized? He was glad
to hear, at all events, that the judge was doing something.
Signor Malipizzo was doing a good deal. He meant to sift the thing to
the bottom. His energy, hitherto simulated, was now set genuinely at
work to discover indications of the murderer--indications of his missing
friend.
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