"And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what
they had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not
Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And
what do you think they found in the pockets?"
"I cannot imagine."
"No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with
pennies and half-pennies—421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It was
no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a human
body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the
wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat
had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the
river."
"But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the
room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?"
"No, sir, but th
