Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as McCarty, Norwood and Jarvis.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ McCarty's chin was a trifle out-thrust. "He may have been in the house and yet not seen his wife or gone near her dressing-room——"
"Mac, what's the matter with you?" the Inspector demanded, disgustedly. "You're getting to be as stubborn as a mule! You can't get around facts, man, and every fact we've got hold of points to Oliver Jarvis." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Norwood paid her."
"I'm going to try it, anyway." McCarty rose. "I'll have a word with the Inspector first and maybe put a flea in his ear, for the fellow that's on his way to New Orleans could find out more if he knew what he was looking for. Many a person in this world is paying blackmail to protect another, or their memory, and Mrs. Jarvis, God rest her soul, may be as innocent as a babe of any connection herself with what she was trying to keep quiet, and yet the disgrace of it coming out might reflect on her in some way. The Inspector can only tell me I'm an old fool for my pains ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Jarvis for them——"
"Hold on, Denny! He wouldn't have killed her," McCarty interrupted. "Terhune was right on that. You mind he said the fellow wouldn't kill the goose that laid the golden eggs? If we could find out what was in those letters, we'd be a long way toward learning the truth. Mr. Norwood knows, all right, but he'll not say another word; when he saw the way my questions were leading, he got a suspicion of the truth for himself and shut up like a clam. Whatever old scandal there is connected with the death of his friend's wife, he'll not be the one to give it away." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ I'm afraid not, Mac. There isn't a shadow of evidence to support such a theory and a million reasons why it would be impossible on the face of it. I thought you had something up your sleeve yesterday, when you came nosing around about that old Hoyos record; but I didn't think you would fall for any such wild idea as this. Old Norwood must have hypnotized you with his fool collection, but if you want to monkey with the case at all, come down to earth! Facts are what we're after, not crazy theories, and we're working for practical results. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ The tolerant indulgence of the Inspector's attitude he recognized from long association as that which the official habitually adopted toward harmless cranks and the army of amateur sleuths who besieged Headquarters with weird suggestions and theories during the investigation of every case to which wide publicity had been given. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ A Lone Hand
"HERE'S little any man can tell about a woman whether he's married to her or not," observed Dennis sententiously. "'Tis well for us, Mac, that we've always steered clear of them. Look at Mrs. Jarvis, now, with all her good works and the sweet ways of her that everyone who knew her talks about; who'd think she could have been mixed up with the murder of a dirty roystering Dago ten years gone? ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ McCarty urged discreetly. "The manager of the agency said she was just the one for the job and you'd like to put it her way, I'm sure. She can do no more than refuse it."
"That's true," the woman agreed. "She told me she was staying with a friend, a Mrs. Williamson over on Park Avenue near a Hundred and Seventeenth Street, but that she was going away somewhere for a rest at the seaside. Kate has a rare craze for the ocean, sir, which is natural, since she's spent most of her life on it. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Old Norwood probably mislaid the wallet himself, if it ever existed. When did he miss it?"
McCarty hesitated.
"Only yesterday, sir," he admitted. "But none except your own men and the medical examiners were in that room till it was locked up on Saturday night. 'Twas taken away by the fellow that killed Mrs. Jarvis——"
"No, Mac. You're away off," the Inspector interrupted, shaking his head. "You had good common sense when you were on the force, but you're letting your imagination run away with you. Whatever Mrs. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Dennis agreed. "Why would anybody break into that museum? There's nothing there that anybody but a nut like Mr. Norwood would want for a keepsake! And why didn't he just beat it when Mrs. Jarvis found him there, instead of killing her?"
"You'll remember there was something there that Mrs. Jarvis wanted bad enough to break in for," McCarty reminded him. "It may have been for the same thing that the man came."
"The wallet!" Dennis wriggled to the edge of his chair. "Mac, maybe it was for the letters that was in it she was being blackmailed! The woman that sold them to Mr. ”

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