Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE GIRL ACROSS THE HALL 7 II. THE TRAGEDY 18 III. JANET PEMBROKE 30 IV. DOCTOR POST'S DISCOVERY 41 V. SEVERAL CLUES 52 VI. THE INQUEST BEGINS 63 VII. I GIVE EVIDENCE 75 VIII. AN AWFUL IMPLICATION 88 IX. GEORGE LAWRENCE 103 X. PERSON OR PERSONS UNKNOWN 118 XI....
"You can do nothing for me if I do," she said, and her words struck a chill to my heart. Laura, too, gave a little shiver and seemed instinctively to draw slightly away from Janet.
13. Part 13The man spoke with an angry inflection and a rising color, and I watched him narrowly. Either this was the just indignation of an innocent man, or else it was the carefully rehe...
12. Part 12The girl must have been of an adaptable temperament, for surely our household was totally unlike the one she had been accustomed to, and yet she seemed perfectly at home and at...
9. Part 9The address given me proved to be a large and handsome apartment house. At the office I inquired for Mrs. Altonstall and being informed that she was at home, I sent up my card,...
14. Part 14"You can go at once to see the apartment," I said; "but to look at the pin we shall have to wait until morning, as I think it is in charge of the coroner."
7. Part 7"I'm afraid, Mr. Lawrence you haven't a deductive mind. I'm no detective myself, but my legal training makes it natural for me to connect cause and effect. Apparently your mind...
10. Part 10If, on the other hand, Janet suspected George, without real knowledge, this fact of course left Janet herself free of all suspicion. While I couldn't believe that the two had co...
6. Part 6George Lawrence paused, and seemed to be thinking over the line of servants who had come and gone. At last he shook his head; "Not definitely," he said. "I don't remember them i...
11. Part 11"All in good time, Mrs. Mulford," the district attorney answered, but I knew that he had seen the letter which the Coroner had shown me, stating that J. S. would not come on Wed...
5. Part 5"Yes, sah. An' still he don't holler out ugly, like he always do. Den I got awful scart, an' I begged Miss Janet to go in his room. An' den she did. An' she scream out: 'Oh, Cha...
15. Part 15"We'll have something to eat first," I declared; "and if you'll come home with me, I'll guarantee that my sister will give you quite as satisfactory a luncheon as you could obta...
3. Part 3I felt myself slightly at a loss in the presence of his repressed feeling, and as I did not think myself sufficiently acquainted with him to offer any word of sympathy, I said n...
4. Part 4"I felt, like Doctor Masterson, that the effects were not quite those of apoplexy, and so made a thorough examination for other causes of death. At the base of the brain I disco...
2. Part 2"Doctor Masterson!" exclaimed Doctor Post, and I saw at once that the younger man was flattered at being called in consultation by the older and celebrated practitioner. "He wan...
1. Part 1CHAPTER PAGE I. THE GIRL ACROSS THE HALL 7 II. THE TRAGEDY 18 III. JANET PEMBROKE 30 IV. DOCTOR POST'S DISCOVERY 41 V. SEVERAL CLUES 52 VI. THE INQUEST BEGINS 63 VII. I GIVE EVI...
16. Part 16"Afterwards--afterwards--I went out and got down-stairs the same way, having waited until the elevator was on the floor above. I felt like a man in a dream, but I knew that now...