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Updated: June 7, 2025
"I guess you've got it all doped out who the Selim woman's gentleman friend was," Strawn commented genially, as he followed Dundee into the pleasant, big bedroom. "I believe I have, but I need Carraway to prove my hunch," Dundee acknowledged.
The sight of MacKelvey at an open window talking with Brisbane and Edward Kinsell, made him frown blackly. Little things had come to be full of significance. It was nearly fifty miles to Martin Leland's. But Hume had ridden early to Helga Strawn and now had a strong, fresh horse under him. Looking at his watch, he saw that it was not yet half past nine.
A bunch of footprints under the window you've been talking about. Here are life-size photographs of 'em, doctor.... And the rambler rose vines that climb up the outside of the window had been torn." After the photographs had been duly inspected by the jury of six Dr. Price said: "That is all, and thank you, Captain Strawn.... Mr. Dundee!"
She's sore as a goat, though, Red. This Helga business sort of got on her nerves." Then Shandon went hurriedly toward the corrals. "Me," mused Dart, on his way to entertain Miss Helga Strawn during what might be a period of lonely waiting for her, "I'm almost chicken-hearted enough to feel sorry for the Weak Sister!" "Garth!"
It was a deed, properly drawn, needing but his own signature to return to Helga Strawn the lands he had bought from her. "So," he sneered, "you are trying a little blackmail, are you? You are a spy and Helga Strawn's agent, I suppose?" Again she laughed at him. "I attend to my own business, my dear cousin," her voice very like his.
"Because I had very little actual proof then," Dundee answered. "As to who he was, the salient clue had been staring me in the face the whole time, but it was not until I was fooling with a set of anagrams last night, idly spelling out the names of all the men who might have married her and then murdered her, that I saw it " "Saw what?" Strawn demanded irritably.
Or I can keep still and you can stand pat. I fancy she'd do that. And she'd get her Dry Lands back." "She can't be as bad as that!" "Can't she? Wait until you have a talk with Jeanette Compton." "It all depends upon Helga Strawn, then? There is a deadlock until you can get her to talk?" "By no means. I'm just making a sort of unofficial report, you understand.
"Body discovered this morning about nine by one of the Miles' maids, in what you described just now as the 'trophy room'.... Shot just below the breastbone, Captain Strawn says." "The trophy room!" Penny cried. "Then that's where he was all the time after he disappeared so strangely last night " "Whoa, Penny!" Dundee commanded. "Get hold of yourself!
And since the murder was premeditated, it is better to count on the fact that the murderer or murderess had planned a pretty safe hiding place for the gun and the silencer.... Oh, not necessarily in the house or even near the house," he hastened to assure Strawn, who was trying to break in.... "By the way, how long after Mrs. Selim was killed was her death discovered? Or do you know?"
For if Strawn needed his help, Dundee needed the expert machinery which Strawn captained. And it was good to feel the grip of gratitude in the old chief's handclasp and to see the almost shy twinkle of apology in his hard old grey eyes.... Dundee led the way up the front stairs to the upper floor, glad to hear the heavy tread of official feet behind him.
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