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THERE seemed no doubt that Murphy the guide had been the kidnapper and murderer of young Moncrieff. The chief inspector's informant added that all the private information pointed definitely to this. The man was known to be in ample funds on his arrival, six months later, in Argentina. He had disappeared from that country in about another six months, and had not been heard of since. In appearance, since Pointer promptly asked for this, he was a big man with dark-brown small eyes, and but one marked physical characteristic at the time of the kidnapping and murder, which was that the lower half of his left ear lobe was missing.
The man of the photograph, then. He was big, fat, and the ear turned towards the camera was minus the lower half of its lobe.