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The Dry Lands were no whit more valuable to-day than they had been last year. But if the scheme Hume was engineering went through it would be a different matter. "You have already sold your interest, given the deed, haven't you, Miss Strawn? What difference does it make?" he asked bluntly. "What if I have?" she countered coolly. "I am not the sort of woman, Mr.
Polly Beale demanded, and at Dundee's miserable nod, the girl faced her friends: "Well, come along, girls!" "Lord! What a girl!" Dundee muttered to Strawn, as the young Amazon herded Flora Miles, Penny Crain, Karen Marshall, Carolyn Drake, Lois Dunlap and Janet Raymond into the dining room.
Sprague had been promised that, when he raised the screen at a tap or a whispered request, a roll of bills would be handed to him, but he received a bullet instead." "And which one of your six suspects have you picked on?" Strawn asked sarcastically. "That's just the trouble. There are still six," Dundee acknowledged with a wry grin.
Dundee crossed the room, stepping over the dead man's stick a swank affair of dark, polished wood, with a heavy knob of carved onyx, which lay about a foot beyond the reach of the curled fingers of the stiff right hand. "Sprague's hat?" he asked, pointing to a brightly banded straw which lay upon the top of the cabinet. "Yes," Strawn answered. "And did you notice the window screen?"
He is a young man of signal ability, and if he continues to serve the country as faithfully as he has in the present case, will yet attain distinction. CHRISTOPHER C. STRAWN Was a valuable witness.
A cross designated the spot where the treasure chest had sunk in eight feet of water. The knoll and the grave of Seaman Jesse Strawn were also indicated, with the distance estimated in paces and the bearings set down by the position of the sun. "There," said Jack, well pleased with his handiwork, "and once we are aboard ship, I can make fair copies on parchment, one for each of us."
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.
The maid's scarred face flushed a deep, angry red, but she offered no protest when the district attorney accepted both of Dundee's suggestions. "Then you'll have Carraway with his camera at my office in about an hour?" Sanderson turned to Captain Strawn. "Let's say twelve o'clock. By the way, Lydia, you may bring in with you the few pieces of jewelry you mentioned.
Big houses, with their many locks, are usually provided with a master key, and Miles undoubtedly used that one to gain entrance into my room after midnight Saturday morning." "Where did you find the vise?" Strawn asked. "In the tool chest right here, where he had also placed the reamer he had bought.
That looked all right, didn't it? But then you told Brisbane that Helga Strawn told you that Hume had paid her twenty-five thousand. Eh?" "Yes," Shandon returned. "Have you asked her?" Kinsell laughed softly. "I don't do business that way. Usually in this sort of a game if you want to catch nice fat lies fish with question marks for hooks.
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