Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as McCarty, Norwood and wallet.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ Norwood's perturbation was manifest and he added nervously. "However, that is beside the point. You are probably right, McCarty. A thing like that doesn't disappear by itself and no one would have the slightest reason for removing it. I must have mislaid it in the excitement following the murder——"
"Mr. Norwood." McCarty faced him and gazed steadily into his shifting eyes. "When you told the Jarvises about getting this wallet and the letters or whatever was in it did the rest of the people who were there at the dinner hear it too?" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ Joan says it is a judgment upon us—having poor Evelyn's body found here—for maintaining that collection of crime relics. She always hated it and could never be induced to enter the museum."
"It's a wonderful collection you've made, though, Mr. Norwood." McCarty seized artfully upon his opportunity. "There's none other like it in the country, and you're the envy of the whole department." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ He closed the cabinet door and turned with an air of finality as if to lead the way from the museum, but McCarty lingered.
"What was in those letters, sir, that were in the wallet? You said yourself that they were the only real clue to the mystery of how the man came to his death. Who wrote them?"
"I don't know!" Norwood wheeled about irascibly. "The woman who sold them to me claimed that they were written by someone who had good reason to want Hoyos out of the way, but naturally she would not disclose their contents until I had paid for them. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ He didn't know where I had placed it and he never touches this cabinet, for its contents are of no use to him in cataloguing the collection. He cannot see to read the notes and other papers, you know, and these blank books are filled with my own private memoranda of the different cases in which I have specialized. No one ever touches them but myself. I cannot understand it!"
"Maybe you put it somewhere else yourself, sir, by mistake." McCarty had approached and stood looking over the other's shoulder. "What did the wallet look like?" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ McCarty paused and then added: "You were going to show it to us, you said, sir, but instead we came on the murder. I don't recall what it was exactly but 'twas something you told us held the only clue to a mystery that had set New York by the ears a good while ago. You'd only got it within a few days——"
"Of course! The Hoyos wallet!" Norwood's face lighted eagerly and he turned to a tall cabinet against the side wall between the fireplace and the corner where stood the case of finger-prints, "It has not entered my mind since the discovery of poor Evelyn's body. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ Here are some of Doctor Venner's typhoid germs which were found secreted in his bathroom after the fourth mysteriously coincidental death from that disease in his household in as many months. He had placed the germs in the water cooler and his insistence upon having that article installed directed the first suspicion against him. A friend in the District Attorney's office who knows of my hobby procured the specimen for me last summer. This is the furrier's knife of which I told you. I do not believe that an implement with a keener blade than than this exists. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ Norwood moved somewhat impatiently in his chair. "But tell me what he said about the murder. Did he allude to last night?"
"Not in so many words. I don't remember rightly just what he said, sir, it was all so mixed up, but he seemed to be wondering who could have done the murder and once he said something about how kind she'd been to him, mentioning no names," McCarty lied blandly. "I'm thinking the war is on his mind as much as the murder, if you ask me."
"Hah!" Norwood emitted a snort of evident satisfaction and relief. "I'm glad the poor fellow has turned the corner, anyway. Now, if Mr. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 13 (1919)

“ I have added other relics to it as time went on and opportunity offered until I flatter myself that it is a fairly complete collection."
"It is that!" McCarty agreed heartily. "But you've not found much to add to it lately, sir, have you?"
"Indeed, yes. It has been greatly augmented within the last year or so," replied the other. "The rope with which old Ogilvy was hung by his own valet, who afterward cut him down and gave the alarm of suicide ”

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