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Updated: July 25, 2025
"For the best of reasons," she answered smilingly, advancing and extending her hand "because we have never met before. However mysterious all this must seem to you, Mr. Cavendish, it is extremely simple when explained. I am Stella Donovan, a newspaperwoman. Your strange disappearance about a month ago aroused considerable interest, and I chanced to be detailed on the case.
Plainly, pleasure had not made him tarry long. Beth and Miss Mallory had talked an hour before the name of Jim Framtree was innocently mentioned by the newspaperwoman. It was not Beth's way to betray her fresh start of interest, even though she gained her first clue to the meaning of the fine light she had seen in Bedient's eyes at parting.... The blood seemed to harden in her heart.
There must have been a tone of distrust to his voice, for she turned and faced him defiantly. "No; not that. Listen: I am a newspaperwoman, a special writer on the New York Star." She paused, her cheeks flushing with nervousness. "It it was very strange that I met you first of all, for for it seems that the case is of personal interest to you." "To me!
"A New York newspaperwoman; well, what do you suppose she is doing out here? After us?" Enright had a grip on himself again and slowly relit his cigar, leaning back, and staring out the window. His mind gripped the situation coldly. "Well, we'd best be careful," he said slowly. "Probably it's merely a coincidence, but I don't like her lying to Beaton. That don't look just right.
There's a newspaperwoman down at the hotel. I haven't been able to discover yet what she is doing out here, but she's one of the big writers on the New York Star. If she got an inkling of this affair " "Who is she? Not the girl you had that row over, Beaton?" The gunman nodded. "She's the one." "Do you suppose Jim Westcott knew her before?
For some time she stood motionless at the window, looking out, but seeing nothing, her mind busy with the problem. She thought rapidly and clearly, more than ordinarily eager to solve this mystery. She was a newspaperwoman, and the strange story in which she was involved appealed to her imagination, yet its appeal was far more effective in a purely personal way.
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