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Updated: June 7, 2025
"And Captain Strawn received a wire from a ballistics expert in Chicago this morning, confirming our conviction that the same gun which fired the bullets against Judge Marshall's target fired the bullet which killed Nita Selim.... You've washed that plate long enough. Let me dry it now.... And there are other things, Penny " "Such as " she challenged in her angry, husky contralto.
Already Sledge Hume and Helga Strawn had come to find something to admire in each other. The short sight of a clever man and a clever woman could not discern what lay at the end. And the end was rushing upon them with tremendous speed.
Strawn had demanded irritably, and had not been appeased by Dundee's suggestion: "Because she did not want Lydia, in dusting the desk, to see it and be alarmed." Yes, he had been busy enough, but what, actually, had he to show for his industry?
"I am going to tell you something. I am going to tell you why I came to you, why I suffered you day after day to come to me. And what I came for I am going to get. You are going to give it to me!" She had sprung to her feet, twin spots of colour upon her white cheeks, her eyes blazing. "You told me that you had paid five thousand dollars to Helga Strawn for her interest in the Dry Lands! Liar!
Here was her desk a small feminine affair of rosewood, set in the corner of the room nearest the porch door. The desk was not locked. As Dundee let down the slanting lid, whose polish was marred with many fingerprints, he saw that its contents were in a hopeless jumble. So Strawn had beaten him to this, too!
"Listen, Cap'n.... 'NITA SELIM MURDERED AT BRIDGE'.... Probably the snappiest streamer headline the News has had for many a day.... Now let's see " He was silent for two minutes, while his eyes leaped down the lesser headlines and the column one, page one story of the murder. Then: "Good old Strawn!
"This is a telegram Captain Strawn received this afternoon from the city editor of The New York Evening Press.... Can you hear me?... All right!" and he read slowly, repeating when necessary. When he had finished reading the telegram, he listened for a long minute, but not with so much concentration that he could not grin at Penny's wide-eyed amazement and joy.
It is my own business and I hope that I am not asking overmuch if I request you not to tell any one that I am Helga Strawn." He shrugged his shoulders. "If you don't want Hume to know you I most certainly shall not seek to find or take advantage of an opportunity to tell him." "Thank you again. Now, for the other part of my business with you.
For that " and he grinned, " is where the pot is scheduled to boil over. I'd like everybody to be there by 5:15." "Where do I come in?" Captain Strawn demanded, almost jealously. "Now that you are no longer looking for a New York gunman, I suppose you have plenty of plainclothesmen at your disposal?"
Silas H. Strawn, Esq., was sent to China as American commissioner to cooperate with commissioners of the other powers in the establishment of a commission to inquire into the present practice of extraterritorial jurisdiction in China, with a view to reporting to the Governments of the several powers their findings of fact in regard to these matters.
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