Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as McCarty, Jarvis and Dennis.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ She rose to her feet slowly and the brown eyes flashed.
"If I knew, do you think that I would betray her confidence?" she said. "If there were any secret which she did not tell her husband do you think I would speak now? She is dead and whatever she may have had locked in her heart must die with her."
"Not if it helps her murderer to go free." McCarty's tone was suddenly stern.
"Her—murderer!" Mrs. Sawtelle gasped. "You don't mean—it cannot be! She told me he was dead!"
An irrepressible gurgle emanated from Dennis' throaty but McCarty remained seemingly unmoved. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ Sawtelle paced slowly to the window, where she stood for long gazing out over the rolling lawns to the blue waters of Lake Pontchartrain, while McCarty and Dennis waited in silence. At length she turned and her face, though pale, was composed and resolute.
"You are right. If she came to her death because of the secret which she has guarded, then I must break my promise to her. Mr. Jarvis was not her first husband. She ran away, eloped over the convent wall with a fascinating stranger, after a month of as tempestuous and romantic a wooing as ever a girl had. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ McCarty ignored Dennis' stare and went on earnestly. "Since Mrs. Jarvis' death some papers have come to light among her things which show there was something in her life before ever she'd met and married her husband that she never told, something that she'd have gone to any lengths to keep secret."
Mrs. Sawtelle dropped limply into a chair.
"This—this is not possible!" she stammered. "I knew her well and I cannot believe it! But how did you hear of me? Why have you come?"
"To learn the truth, ma'am. You and she were girls together at the Convent of the Blessed Name. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ Sawtelle drew a deep sigh and brushed her hand across her eyes.
"There, Mr. McCarty, I have told you everything! If Leonidas Hoguet is dead—and Evelyn would never have married Oliver unless it were true—who could have known her secret? Who could have killed her, and why?"
"I can't tell you that now, ma'am." McCarty's face was very grave but his eyes gleamed with a steely light. "There's a lot of work to be done on the case still and we're dealing with no ordinary criminal. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ ON a bright, balmy afternoon in late November the Planters' Bank of New Orleans was about to close its doors for the day when two men, obviously strangers, entered and approached the paying teller's window. One was tall and lantern jawed and moved with the lithe ease which told of perfect muscular training; the other heavy set but not bulky, with a stubby, reddish mustache on the long upper lip and keen smiling blue eyes.
"You've a director at this bank named Justin Messager. I'd like to know where I can find him, please," announced the heavier of the two strangers. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ McCarty urged. "You can do your friend no good now by keeping still and if she could know she would want you to speak. 'Twill be on your soul if her murderer escapes and as for her husband, half the truth is worse for him than the whole of it." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ McCarty's lips moved, but no words came and he walked as if in a trance, staring straight ahead of him with eyes that were round with wonder.
"All right! Keep mum if you want to!" Dennis remarked sourly. "It's little you got from the old one that'd make conversation. Whatever that murdered dago was to her or her family you'll get no word of it from the likes of him."
"He told us more than a word, if you'd been listening for it." McCarty found his voice at last. "According to young Jarvis, his wife was twenty-seven. That would make her sixteen or seventeen when she left the convent. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ He seems to have had a taking way with women, but the back of my hand to him for a thorough-going blackguard dead or alive!"
"Don't go getting yourself worked up about it till we know where we're at," McCarty counseled. "We've nothing yet to bank on, remember. If Messager knew anything he'd not tell it, and we've got to have the straight dope on this."
"Where'll you get it?" Dennis demanded. "Chartrand's dead and if there was anything that he didn't tell young Jarvis when he married her, he'd not have breathed it now." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ The stranger declined, and receiving the proffered slip of paper, he departed, followed by his companion.
"Look here, Mac, you've not told me a word of what we're after!" the latter complained. "Who is this Justin Messager, and what for are we trailing a feeble old man that'll likely have us thrown out for intruding on him?"
"He was a crony of Pierre Chartrand, and Chartrand was the guardian of Evelyn Beaudet as was, Oliver Jarvis' wife," McCarty responded. "Is it beginning to get through your thick head? ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ Messager nodded.
"A frightful affair! She was a lovely child, a charming young girl; I watched her grow to womanhood under my old friend's care." He checked himself suddenly, and added: "Have they found the assassin?" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ Chartrand opposed that, and she submitted to his wishes, although she took very little part in the social life about her, shutting herself up with her books and flowers and music When my niece Loretta was married to Peyton Sawtelle, she would not even attend the wedding, although they had been inseparable at the convent."
"She's been married to Mr. Jarvis for five years," McCarty observed. "How long before that did she leave the convent?"
"Let me see. Bless me! It is ten years now; no, eleven next spring. She had always been a frail, delicate child and broke down from over study. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 20 (1919)

“ Over study, the old fellow called it!" Dennis' mind had started to work. "She wanted to take the veil and then when her guardian wouldn't let her do that, she shut herself away from everyone! Sixteen or seventeen is no babe in arms ”

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