HORIKAWA; VALET OF CUNNINGHAM, DISAPPEARS


The lead of the story below was to the effect that Cunningham had drawn
two thousand dollars in large bills from the bank the day of his death.
Horikawa could not be found, and the police had a theory that he had
killed and robbed his master for this money.




CHAPTER XI

THE CORONER'S INQUEST

If Kirby had been playing his own hand only he would have gone to the
police and told them he was the man who had been seen leaving the
Paradox Apartments by the fire escape. But he could not do this
without running the risk of implicating Wild Rose. Awkward questions
would be fired at him that he could not answer. He decided not to run
away from arrest, but not to surrender himself. If the police rounded
him up, he could not help it; if they did not, so much the better.

He made two more attempts to see Wild Rose during the day, but he could
not find her at home. When he at last did see her it was at the
inquest, where he had gone to learn all that he could of the
circumstances surrounding the murder.

There was a risk in attending. He recognized that. But he was moved