Guy Garrick

tive work," Garrick remarked to me

or we had often di

e pursued. "The old methods are all right-as far as they go. But while

re on the return trip from abroad, an

ld me that I must rest, or at least combine pleasure with business. Thus I had taken the voyage across the ocean to attend the International Elect

sting personality to me. He had travelled much, especially in London, Paris, Berlin,

cquaintance, therefore, had rapidly ripened into friendship, and on our return, I had formed a habit of dropping in frequentl

rime-hunters have gone ahead faster than the criminals. Now, it's my job to catch criminals. Yours, it seems to

ppealed to me, in fact was exactly in line with some plans I

rrington was responsible for clearing our ideas as to our mutual relations

he expected to have no time to devote to his other work for several days, "come along an

ant it, but I doubt whether he slept much during the night. Ce

y over the first page of the morning paper, "but I rather expe

been dropped into place at the last moment as the city

as h

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d to Guy, that this was in the vicinity that must have been traversed in order to reach the point from which had come

roads in this section of the state, the body of a murdered girl was discovered lat

oward Tuxedo and were able to prove themselves of good character. Indeed, the trampled condition of the thicket plainly indicates, according to the local coroner, that the girl was brought there, pro

o make it. A blow could hardly have accomplished it, so jagged were its edges, and if the girl had been struck by a passing high-speed car, as wa

llet, nor was any bullet found in the body after the most careful examination. The local authorities are completely mystified a

or four, of medium height, fair, good looking, and stylishly dressed,

ick had his hat and coat on and had shoved

let," I ruminated. "I

k, urging me on. "I think we

nces of the thing, coming so closely after the report about Warrington's car, are very s

t railroad station to the town mentioned in the despatc

re the body had been moved, he volunteered the information that the New York police, whom he had notified immediately, had already sent a man up there, who had taken a

advantage. They have organization on their side. A good many detectives make

ossible, just as it is to

he regular detectives. They are all right, in fact indispensable. Half the secret of success nowadays is

ns to move the body to the nearest large city pending the disposal of the case. Local detectives had set to work, but so far had turned

re the removal of the body to the city and by his

when to that are added the sordid surroundings of a country undertaker

rouge and powder which had long since spoiled what might otherwise have been a clea

utterly inexplicable. There was, he soon discovered, a sort of greasy, oleaginous deposit in the clotted blood of t

she was struck by a car. But it's my opinion that she was killed by a rifle bullet of some kind, a

ination of the wound without pas

the place where the body was discovered," he concluded

k state boundary to the spot where the body had been found. It was a fine, well-

even the trace of one. It seemed hopeless also to attempt to pick out any of the footprints. The earth was soft and even muddy, but so many feet had trodden it down since the first alar

at did interest Garrick. Very carefully, so as not to destroy anything himself wh

he direction of the sun, up-ended the camera he had brought, and began to photograph t

word. He, at least, I am sure, thought that G

er thanking the coroner, who had gone out of his

ride into the city in the suburban train, "we don't seem to

a which he had folded and slipped into his pocket. "We'll just preserve the

eplied, "but I couldn'

e developed my films, you will see that the marks that have been left there are precisely like those left by the make of tires used on Warrington's car, according to the advertisement sent out by McBirney. Of course, that mere fact alone doesn't prove anything. Many cars may use that make of tires. Still, it

of an automobile tire, I might possibly have ventured to doubt it. As it was it