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Miller handed back the bullet . `` It rather looks as if Mr. Whitney has invented some wearing apparel which Mauser bullets can not penetrate , '' he said slowly , `` or else ... '' `` Yes , Herr Captain . '' `` You are a great liar . '' Shortly before three o'clock on that same afternoon in which Heinrich had confided in Miller , dashing turnouts and limousines , their smartly liveried coachmen and chauffeurs asking now and then the direction from street-crossing policeman , trotted and tooted their way down busy Seventh Street toward the wharves , their destination a modest two-storied stuccoed building bearing the words , `` D. C. Morgue . '' The inquest on Sinclair Spencer was to be held there at three o'clock . Spencer 's tragic death twenty-four hours before had indeed created a sensation in the nation 's Capital . The wildest rumors were afloat .