FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135  
136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   >>   >|  
isguise, a disguise which, apparently, had consisted of nothing but a black moustache and bushy eyebrows. And Abrahamson had promised to wire him if he did remember. The "here" meant it was in Furmville that he had seen the moustached man. He went to the telegraph desk and wrote out a message: "Mr. Frank Abrahamson, 329 College Street, Furmville, N. C. "Silence. (Signed) "Braceway." "One-word telegrams!" he smiled grimly. "Thrifty fellows, these chosen people." He found the telephone booths and called up Golson. "Got anything from Baltimore?" he inquired. "Just been talking to Delaney on long-distance," Golson answered without enthusiasm. "Well! What is it?" "Your man gave him the slip a quarter of an hour ago, and he wants----" "Gave him the slip!" shouted Braceway. "What are you talking about?" "I don't like it any more than you do," snapped Golson. "But that's what happened: gave him the slip." "How?" "I didn't get that exactly. Delaney merely said he lost him in the hotel. Your man was evidently waiting there for a message or phone call. If he received it, Delaney was fooled. Anyway, he's gone now; and Delaney wants to know what he's to do. What'll I tell him?" "Tell him to go to hell!" Braceway said hotly. "No! Tell him to go back to Eidstein's and wait there until Morley shows up. That's his only chance to pick him up again." "O.K.," growled Golson. "Say! Put somebody on the job of watching for the incoming trains from Baltimore, will you? Right away?" "Platt's just come into the office. I'll send him to the station at once." "What time did Delaney lose sight of Morley?" "Twelve forty-five." Braceway hung up the receiver and looked at his watch. It was ten minutes past one. He had fifty minutes to kill before keeping an appointment he had made with Major Ross, chief of the Washington police. After a quick lunch, he strolled over to the news-stand and picked up the early edition of an afternoon paper. The first headlines he saw were: STOLEN GEMS FOUND IN SUSPECT'S YARD Under these lines was a dispatch from Furmville giving the information that plain-clothes men of the Furmville police force had discovered the emerald-and-diamond lavalliere worn by Mrs. Enid Fulton Withers the night she was murdered. The jewelry had been found in the yard of the house where Perry Carpenter had lived. The lavaliere was concealed in tall grass immediately
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135  
136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Delaney
 

Braceway

 

Furmville

 

Golson

 

talking

 
Baltimore
 
police
 

minutes

 
Morley
 

Abrahamson


message

 

receiver

 
Carpenter
 

looked

 
Twelve
 

keeping

 
jewelry
 
watching
 

incoming

 

trains


growled

 

immediately

 

office

 

station

 

murdered

 

lavaliere

 

concealed

 

headlines

 

clothes

 

discovered


edition

 
afternoon
 

information

 

dispatch

 

SUSPECT

 
STOLEN
 

picked

 
Washington
 

Withers

 
Fulton

giving
 

lavalliere

 
diamond
 
emerald
 

strolled

 

appointment

 
Signed
 

telegrams

 
smiled
 

Silence