Midnight

cigarette. Time had been long since the detective had come in contact with so much youthful spontaneity, and he found the

g lady?" ques

It bane yo

w hi

lightly disheveled and obviously excited young man of about twenty-eight years o

u Mr. C

es

am-Garriso

on't you b

to have a t

elf opposite his ca

me to s

he Warre

something

man seemed to bit

ha

rge of the cas

es

this mornin

hav

y words, but the impression they create is that my sister, Hazel, wa

more excited. Carroll pu

t I shall see that all doubt is removed from the mind of the public when this afte

already le

es

aned forwa

sure-that she

on you-if you hav

e aw

sister at midn

ho

any one besides y

wing surprise at Carroll's

ho

what I believe you call a crush on my sister. They were together in that house from t

just repeated; so I'm pretty well satisfied that your sister had nothing whatever to do w

seemed to have droppe

you, Carroll! I

cessary. And Miss Rogers told me, with great attention to detail, just why and how

act that she's more or less minus in the upper story

he door together. They

tly the heavi

dentity of the woman in the

Have

g ought to develop in the near future.

sister. Hazel is only a kid, and I think she was in love with Warren. Well,

s, Gre

d for the police-station. He turned the case over and over in a keen,

il of the mysterious midnight woman would lead to the fiancée of the dead man, the sudden dissipation of that a

a taxicab which, according to its driver's story, could not have been other than empty. It was always easy to explain the disap

elf with Leverage. They plunged at once i

aked that bird Warren and shoved him into the cab while the woman was ridin' in it. The other is that he slipped

hy

dead body into a cab without the driver kn

d, Leverage, that Walters di

ble that he was in on the deal-but I'm betting Liberty bonds against Russian rubles that he'd have slipped somewhere if that had been the case. Nob

easonable

at you suspec

t suspe

you s

th. As I told you, the Hazel Gresham trail died a-borning. The kid who came to see me this morning cleared her; and then her brother came along ri

g it," said Leverage fer

as to ask what you'

garding Warren-who he was, where he came from, what he did, the size of his bank deposits, his business connections,

this dame was

ith her; and a man of his stamp doesn't of

ll, I'll get you

ght to be pretty easy to get hold of a world of gossip concerning Warren's love-affairs-provided he had any. Everybody's concerned over the id

ted railroad ticket office. He introduced himself to the chief

in this office, Mr. Carroll. T

ng chap who bustled forward importantly,

e tickets to

s,

he

fore ye

re it was M

known him by sig

ickets-what

om on No. 29 for New York-due

o tickets and a drawing-r

a drawing-room unless the purch

both tickets to

ave them bo

dignitary, to the undertaking establishment where the body was being kept under police guard. Nothing had yet been touche

ion Station, and through his police badge secured access to the baggage-room. The trunk was not there. He compared checks wit

he conductor of the train for New York, which informed him that the drawing-room engaged by Warren had been unoccupied, nor had there been an attempt on the

en, and for whom the second ticket had been bought, had never boarded t

noon that Carroll returned to headquarter

re isn't a doubt that Warren was gett

w s

hecked ove

ars in cash. Third, he left his automobile with a dealer here to be sold, and di

and f

his valet