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Updated: June 19, 2025
Mute before Penny's excited questions, the detective idly selected letters from the mass of face-up blocks on the table, and spelled out, in a long row, the names of all the guests at Nita's fatal bridge party. Suddenly, and with a cry that startled Penny, Dundee made a new name with the little wooden letters.... Now he knew the answers to both "How?" and "Who?"
Dundee nodded, frowning, and Strawn began eagerly: "You'll have to admit I was right now, boy. You've sneered at my gunman theory and tried to pin Nita's murder on one of Hamilton's finest bunch of people, but you'll have to admit now that every detail of this set-up bears me out." "Yes?" "Sure. This is the way I figure it out: Sprague has good reason to be afraid he's next on the program.
But in the foyer closet he read a different story. Its back wall had an amateurish look. This closet was not cedar-lined, as was Nita's, but was painted throughout in soft ivory. But it was the back wall of the closet in which Dundee was interested.
Miss Ferris says it's the best house-play she's seen." "I know. Isn't it just splendid?" sighed Betty rapturously. "And isn't the Princess a dear? But Madeline, you haven't any idea how my feet ache." "No," said Betty, "I haven't found it, and now I'm almost sure I shan't, because Nita's lost hers." "What has Nita lost?" asked Madeline from her nest of pillows.
Any one of half a dozen persons could have arrived with the gun and silencer not screwed together, of course, because of the ungainly length and seized the opportunity presented by Nita's being alone in her bedroom to shoot her. What easier, then, than to hide the weapon on this secret shelf, the "door" of which yielded to the slightest pressure?
Since Dundee felt that there was little chance of following through either on the scandals which Gladys Earle had hinted at, or on Nita's strangely secret marriage of twelve years before, he immediately dispatched a wire to Sanderson, assuring him that vital progress had been made and that he would leave New York on the four o'clock train west, arriving in Hamilton Sunday morning at 8:50.
"Sixth: The word 'blackmail' was not mentioned, and Johnny Drake, because of professional ethics, I suppose, did not tell about Nita's two deposits of $5,000 each in his bank. "Seventh: The secret shelf in the foyer closet was not mentioned. "Peter's verdict, after he got through with us, was that only Sprague could have done it using the gun and silencer which Nita herself had stolen from Hugo.
What's going to become of her? And somebody else said that it was harder on her Nita's death, I mean than on anybody else, because Nita was all she had in the world, and then Lois Lois is always practical, you know ran to telephone Police Headquarters, to see what had been done with Lydia, and to see if it would be all right for Flora and me to take her home with us " "Just a minute, Miles!
Frost knew that no women could accompany the expedition, and, shipping his chest and desks by the transport, he had secured passage for himself and wife to Hongkong on one of the splendid steamers of the English line from Vancouver, and so informed her. It dashed Nita's last hope. They were occupying fine rooms at the Palace Hotel. The city was thronged with officers and rapidly arriving troops.
He paused to open the door across from the telephone table and found that it opened into a closet, whose hangers and hat forms now held the outdoor clothing belonging to Nita's guests.
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