No Clue

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Hay James. No Clue

I. THE GREY ENVELOPE

II. THE WOMAN ON THE LAWN

III. THE UNEXPECTED WITNESS

IV. HASTINGS IS RETAINED

V. THE INTERVIEW WITH MRS. BRACE

VI. ACTION BY THE SHERIFF

VII. THE HOSTILITY OF MR. SLOANE

VIII. THE MAN WHO RAN AWAY

IX. THE BREAKING DOWN OF WEBSTER

X. THE WHISPERED CONFERENCE

XI. MOTIVES REVEALED

XII. HENDRICKS REPORTS

XIII. MRS. BRACE BEGINS

XIV. MR. CROWN FORMS AN ALLIANCE

XV. IN ARTHUR SLOANE'S ROOM

XVI. THE BRIBE

XVII "THE WHOLE TRUTH"

XVIII. THE MAN WHO RODE AWAY

XIX "PURSUIT!"

XX. DENIAL OF THE CHARGE

XXI "AMPLE EVIDENCE"

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Mr. Jefferson Hastings, unsuspecting that he was about to be confronted with the most brutal crime in all his experience, regretted having come to "Sloanehurst." He disapproved of himself unreservedly. Clad in an ample, antique night-shirt, he stood at a window of the guest-room assigned to him and gazed over the steel rims of his spectacles into the hot, rainy night. His real vision, however, made no attempt to pierce the outer darkness. His eyes were turned inward, upon himself, in derision of his behaviour during the past three hours.

A kindly, reticent gentleman, who looked much older than his fifty-three years, he made it his habit to listen rather than talk. His wide fame as a criminologist and consulting detective had implanted no egotism in him. He abhorred the spotlight.

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"It's knocked me out – completely," Sloane said, surrendering the torch to Wilton.

Webster, the pallor still on his face, a look of horror in his eyes, stood on the side of the body opposite the detective. At brief intervals he raised first one foot, then the other, clear of the ground and set it down again. He was unconscious of making any movement at all.

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