Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 6, 1923 — page 67: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By FLORENCE M. PETTEE Author of ‘‘ Mystery of Voodoo Manor,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART 1. UGH CAVENDISH, fifty, rich, has just stepped from his automobile into the corridor of an office building when he is mysteriously struck down. A doctor attempts to revive him, but he dies after gasping a message that indicates the act is that of a suicide. Examination shows that the cause of death was a heart wound, and the weapon a woman’s hatpin. The chief of police calls to his aid Dr. Nancy Dayland, a young woman who previously has solved cases that had baffled the detectives. Arrived at the scene, she at once discovers that the hatpin is poniardlike in its construction and that Cavendish, who was right-handed, had fallen with the weapon held in his left hand. Nancy first interrogates Mlle. Mignonne, a clairvoyant, who has an office in the building, but the woman does not yield a decided clew. Next she finds in an anteroom a middle-aged woman who is desperately anxious not to be drawn into the case as a witness. hatpin bore the monogram, “ D. C.” CHAPTER VII. ALIAS AND ALIBI. KAD silence followed. It was a si- |) lence so fraught with significance set in motion by the words that the room reeked with it. Miss Greenwood’s eyes never left Nancv’s mobile face. ‘* Please,” she began, “‘ I don’t know who vou are, but vou look likealady. And your face says that you have a heart. Can’t This is Miss Ivy Greenwood, maternal aunt of Cavendish’s daughter, Dorothy. The you help me get away from here unseen? M-m-money is no object.” Two scarlet spots appeared on Nancy’s cheeks. Her dark eyes flashed ominously. ‘““T regret,” she said coldly, “ that I did not introduce myself at the outset, at the same time warning you that anything you said might be used against you.” ‘““W-what do you mean?” asked Miss Greenwood with wide eyes. ‘That I am Nancy Dayland, retained by This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for September 29. 4A 849 EO OO) (©