Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as Hoyos, McCarty and shears.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ The stillness was broken now by a wordless stir which ran around the semicircle as McCarty took from his pocket the folded blank sheet and another covered with laboriously scrawled writing. The first he passed to Inspector Druet, while from the second he read:
"I know who killed Madame Jarvis. He knows that I know and he will kill me also. I heard them there in the museum and the voice of her murderer is the voice of him who calls himself Eric Vivaseur!" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ McCarty's face reddened at the taunting tone, but he replied quietly.
"Perhaps I can, sir. You've heard, I dare say, of nicknames, and the like. You'd hardly think, perhaps, that a man like Hoyos would be called pet names——"
"What utter rot!" Terhune's coolness was deserting him. "It is only a certain type of man whose personality invites nicknames and your Hoyos is not of that breed. Are you trying to show that the man was called 'Noel'?" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ The others subsided and McCarty explained:
"You see, the poor young lad betrayed himself; he showed his suspicions too plainly before he was convinced enough to act on them and Hoyos—we'll call him that still, though now I could put another name to him—got to him there in the library when he was all alone. There was a struggle and Marchal managed to get the drawer of the desk open and pull out his pistol to defend himself with but Hoyos wrested it out of his hand. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ He'd made too gallant a record in the war, too brave a fight afterward to go under and take his own life just because a whippersnapper of a detective tried to fasten the responsibility for the crime on him rather than admit his own failure to find the real murderer! ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ It's a safe bet that he didn't know the little convent girl he'd tricked into marriage was an heiress or he would have stuck to her till he'd got her fortune away from her. He must have been a surprised man when somehow, a year ago, he found out that she had become the wealthy and prominent Mrs. Oliver Jarvis.
"He sent her the cake in order to get the word 'Noel' to her notice in such a fashion that no one except her would guess what it meant and to pave the way for the blackmail later." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ Marchal must have broke away from his grasp then and ran from him, for when Hoyos shot him the first time 'twas from a distance of several feet. He fell and then the bright idea came to Hoyos.
"He knew that everyone else in the house was out and he'd have all the time in the world to do what he wanted to. He extracted the second cartridge shell from the pistol and picking up this pair of shears from the table, he cut off the top of the shell with the blades of it and took out the bullet. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 23 (1919)

“ McCarty continued, carefully dusting the powder back into the envelope and tendering it also to the Inspector, "but he'd come on Marchal just an hour too late.
"There's the powder and the shears to prove it, and here I've something else that caps it all!
"They say that people who lose their eyesight get sharper in other ways, that they can sense things quicker than them that can see. ”

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