Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as McCarty, wallet and old duffer.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ The woman laughed scornfully.
"It's easy to dope out anything if you have enough imagination and nerve!" she remarked. "If that is all they have to go upon, they've a bloody lot of cheek, I say, to go smirching a lady's name by trying to connect it with a forgotten scandal just because the old duffer can't find his precious relic! They must be hard put to it for a scapegoat!"
Her voice had grown raucous and there was an ugly, sullen light in her eyes which hardened her expression immeasurably. McCarty took a long shot.
"But remember the letters themselves," he said slyly. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ McCarty waved a comprehensive arm.
"I hate cities!" The woman shuddered and her eyes fell upon the newspaper which McCarty had purposely held so that the flaring head-lines might come within her range of vision. "You may be more lonely in them than at sea, and they're filled with dirt and poverty and dreadful happenings." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ McCarty demanded, with a sudden note of sternness in his voice.
"Oh! yes. I'm Kate, all right, as you could see by the register where I'm stopping. I didn't come down here to hide!" she declared in scorn. "I was stewardess on The Muette when Mr. Hoyos—when the accident happened, and I gave my testimony full and free at the inquest. If I'd been wanted, the police could have laid a finger on me any time in the past ten years. I don't know anything about any wallet, or letters, and I never laid eyes on the old duffer that owns the museum, or the lady who was murdered there!" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ McCarty observed sententiously. "But if there's a criminal instinct in anybody it's as liable to make him act on sea as on land. You've heard no doubt, ma'am, of dreadful happenings on board all kinds of ships, from yachts to liners?"
"I—I suppose so." Her voice was lowered and her florid cheek had paled as she turned and stared once more steadily before her. "I don't hold with horrors myself."
"No more do I," McCarty conceded. "That is, not as a rule, but I've been reading about this murder that took place in New York a few days ago. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ McCarty appeared to ruminate. "I remember it said something about a woman having sold them to him; a woman who used to be employed on the yacht I suppose the police will be hotfoot after her now."
"But why?" cried his companion. "They don't accuse her of the murder, do they? If she was working on the yacht the time the other affair happened she must have told all she knew at the inquest—I mean to say, if there was one."
"Not quite. She didn't say anything about the letters, and that's suppression of evidence; a serious matter in a case like that." McCarty watched the woman narrowly. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ McCarty got slowly to his feet and remarked as if in afterthought:
"So you had no liking for the man Hoyos."
"I had not," the woman responded. "He's dead, but he was a beast if ever there was one. He got his just deserts, I say, and the only pity of it was that the poor young thing died with him! I know nothing about this other murder, or the wallet or any letters, and if you have no warrant for me, 111 thank you to let me pass!" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 18 (1919)

“ Heavings knows, it ain't necessary to go around telling all your business, but I always say: if a person is so close-mouthed they won't let a word fall, there's a reason for it. There ain't an inquisitive bone in my body, but I talked to her for an hour last night and got nothing out of her beyond that she was English and had traveled a lot. ”

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