Isabel Ostrander

Name: The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9
Author: Isabel Ostrander

The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

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“The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9”, published in 1919, is a work by Isabel Ostrander. It explores elements such as Norwood, McCarty and Jarvis.

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Inspector Druet darted a keen, sidewise glance at him. "What do you think of it, Mac, anyway?"
"That there's more than one holding out on you, sir," replied McCarty frankly. "Though who it was got in the Jarvis house, nor how the poor creature's body came to be on the operating table in Mr. Norwood's museum instead of the skeleton is more than I can figure out."
"You don't subscribe to Mr. Terhune's theory, then?" ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ McCarty observed. "I'm trying to get at the facts. If she did go over to the Norwood house for any private reason the secretary may have had nothing to do with it and him being blind may never even have known she was there."
"Then she went to meet someone else, that's a cinch," Dennis grasped at another straw. "I thought last night that nobody but a crazy loon would murder a woman and then cart her body from one house to the next for no earthly reason before making his own getaway. But look here, Mac; if she was murdered in the Norwood house, who was it got in her dressing-room later? ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Dennis chuckled. "What would you with your blarney be finding out that the inspector couldn't?"
"There's more ways than one of killing a pig!" retorted McCarty inelegantly. "He tried bullying her and got nothing but a flare-up of temper for his pains. Of course, she may know nothing but I thought it was worth a chance, so after I left Mr. Norwood's this morning I walked around the block to the Jarvis house and rang the basement bell. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Well I knew you'd something up your sleeve, but a fine couple you'll be, and her with her face out like a balloon——"
"Barring, its natural shape, her face is all right," announced McCarty. "'Twas so covered with bandages last night that you couldn't tell whether it was swollen or not but to-day you'd never believe there'd been a thing the matter with her. 'Tis the quickest toothache cure that ever I see." ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ He's British, but you'd not hold it against him in spite of his blonde little dab of a mustache; a fine figure of a man, though older than I thought when first I saw him; with a florid kind of a color to him and not as slim as a youngster. He's got the manners of a gentleman, however, and a way with women as you could see with half an eye. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Norwood told him an accident had happened to his wife and then broke down and sent him on into the museum. 'Twas Mr. Terhune told him finally."
"Did it appear to affect him very profoundly?"
"'Affect him'?" McCarty repeated, regarding the other in puzzled surprise. "You saw him yourself a minute after, sir. ”

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Isabel Ostrander, The Twenty-Six Clues — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ That she wasn't killed there, but maybe over in the other house, after all?"
"Corpses don't dress themselves," retorted McCarty. "If you remember, Denny, when we found the body in the museum, it was dressed in a dark purple silk, and the scarf that had choked the breath out of her was blue. Margot told us about getting Mrs. Jarvis undressed and into that wrapper thing before she left her in the afternoon and we all saw it there in the bedroom later. Is it likely that Mrs. ”

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