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Usage examples of clews.

Several days had passed, and during that time the Rover boys had done their best to get further clews concerning the robbery.

The police, ran the account, were rounding up suspicious characters, but so far no clews had been discovered in the room where the murder had taken place.

Whitford to the effect that Andy's airship was not out the previous night, and that so far no clews had developed from the letter, or from any other source.

He trailed them as far as New York, and there the clews came to an end.

He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clews, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.

This was one of the few tangible clews upon which thus far we had chanced.

Now for weeks of searching, false alarms, clews, trailings, watchings, all the thrill and heart-bursting excitement of a man-hunt.

Rumours were thick, promising clews were discovered, new trails taken up, but nothing transpired to bring the pursuers and pursued any closer together.