Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as McCarty, Druet and Jarvis.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ McCarty's spirits fell and he mentally anathematized the day his saloon-keeping uncle's money had descended to him and the first flush of prosperity had led him to resign from the force. He had been too long in uniform to gain lasting ease in the habiliments of a mere citizen, too long under orders to find profit or pleasure in the aimless days stretched out interminably before him, too long a man of action to appreciate the life of elegant leisure which had ensued, or derive from it aught but an utter boredom that corroded his honest soul. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ One enterprising journal printed a photograph of the dead woman, evidently resurrected from the files of the time of her marriage, for the costume was obviously out of date, but McCarty studied it with deep interest. There had been small trace of beauty in the swollen, blackened countenance which had stared up at him in the crime museum on the previous night, but the pictured face before him was very lovely in its girlish, ingenuous appeal. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ McCarty pursued.
Jarvis nodded.
"I suppose I had no right to enter her apartments after Inspector Druet had locked them up and taken away the keys, but I didn't stop to think of that," he admitted. "I walked the floor all last night, racking my brains for a solution of this frightful thing, and when morning came I could not endure it any longer. I felt that I must get into that dressing-room again myself and search for some clue to the vile wretch who had murdered her! Then I recalled that I had a duplicate set of keys to my wife's apartments in my desk, and used them. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ At the hour of going to press no information could have been obtainable of the crime save that contained in McCarty's own telephone message to Inspector Druet and the latter's summons of the Chief Medical Examiner and report to the Homicide Bureau.
He was not surprised, therefore, at the meager paragraph, substantially the same in each paper, announcing the sudden death "under suspicious circumstances" of Mrs. Oliver Jarvis, the brilliant young society leader and social worker at the home of the family friend, Mr. Calvin Norwood. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ With his departure Terhune turned reprovingly to his client.
"If you had put me in possession of these facts immediately upon their discovery, Mr. Jarvis," he began, "I should have been able to handle the situation far more advantageously than now, when it is practically taken out of my hands. The obvious course will be to look into your wife's finances at the earliest possible moment, but there are other steps——"
Norwood drew McCarty aside. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ McCarty picked up the topmost sheet to examine it more closely when Norwood's voice, fairly cracking with excitement, sounded over his shoulder.
"Don't you see what it is? An anonymous letter, the simplest and yet most ingenious that could possibly be contrived! The words are formed by letters of the alphabet made of Italian paste, which have been glued to the paper. They are sold practically everywhere for use in soups. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ It is evident that my poor wife rebelled in some way at the exorbitant demand."
"'Lady can and will,'" McCarty read slowly. "'1,000 under bush 26 each month small price safety. will tell all first time money not there. Final warning.' It's blackmail, all right, and it looks as though Mrs. Jarvis must have fell for it, sir, unless the feller got cold feet You had no threatening letters yourself, I suppose, nor offers to sell you any information?"
"Certainly not! I tell you I had no possible intimation of such a thing until I came upon those boxes this morning." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ Norwood. I'm sure the cake must have had something to do with it, too; this cake marked 'Noel'——"
"Good-morning, gentlemen." Terhune's even tones sounded from the doorway and they turned as he entered with Inspector Druet close behind him. "Ah, McCarty, you here? Still interested in last night's little affair, I see."
The observation was none too good-natured, and the ex-Roundsman flushed.
"I'm here because Mr. Norwood asked me, sir. Good-morning, Inspector." He turned pointedly to his old superior. "Mr. Jarvis has come on something that'll surprise you here. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ Jarvis were like own children to Mr. Norwood, h'if I may say so. Mrs. Jarvis 'ad come to tell 'im something h'about Professor Parlowe, but Mr. Norwood was busy in the drawing-room with an odd sort of person who 'ad called and could not be disturbed, so I ushered 'er h'into the library, to Captain Marchal."
There was a note of lofty distaste in the butler's tone as he mentioned his employer's visitor and McCarty observed indifferently:
"I guess Mr. Norwood has all kinds of people calling on him, if so he can get anything from them to add to that museum collection of his." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 6 (1919)

“ I know he wouldn't miss it for worlds, so I hurried straight here to tell him of it myself.' That is 'ow I know, sir. It's terrible to think of the poor young lady being dead now, to say nothing of 'er 'aving been murdered in cold blood! ”

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