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Title: No Clue
A Mystery Story

Author: James Hay

Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26396]

Language: English

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"NO CLUE!"

_A Mystery Story_

BY

JAMES HAY, JR.

AUTHOR OF "THE WINNING CLUE," "THE MELWOOD MYSTERY"

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920
BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

TO
WILLIAM ("BUCK") HAY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE GREY ENVELOPE 1

II. THE WOMAN ON THE LAWN 8

III. THE UNEXPECTED WITNESS 20

IV. HASTINGS IS RETAINED 35

V. THE INTERVIEW WITH MRS. BRACE 48

VI. ACTION BY THE SHERIFF 62

VII. THE HOSTILITY OF MR. SLOANE 75

VIII. THE MAN WHO RAN AWAY 91

IX. THE BREAKING DOWN OF WEBSTER 103

X. THE WHISPERED CONFERENCE 122

XI. MOTIVES REVEALED 138

XII. HENDRICKS REPORTS 151

XIII. MRS. BRACE BEGINS 161

XIV. MR. CROWN FORMS AN ALLIANCE 177

XV. IN ARTHUR SLOANE'S ROOM 195

XVI. THE BRIBE 213

XVII. "THE WHOLE TRUTH" 224

XVIII. THE MAN WHO RODE AWAY 238

XIX. "PURSUIT!" 246

XX. DENIAL OF THE CHARGE 261

XXI. "AMPLE EVIDENCE" 273

"NO CLUE!"

I

THE GREY ENVELOPE

Catherine Brace walked slowly from the mantel-piece to the open window
and back again. Within the last hour she had done that many times,
always to halt before the mantel and gaze at the oblong, grey envelope
that leaned against the clock. Evidently, she regarded it as a powerful
agency. An observer would have perceived that she saw