Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen
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Carroll extended his hand.
"See here--a ticket for a drawing-room to New York, and _one_ railroad-ticket!" "Yes, but--" "Two railroad-tickets are required for possession of the drawing-room," he said quietly. "Warren had only one. It is clear, then, that the holder of the missing ticket was going to accompany him; so what we have to do now--" "Is to find the other railroad-ticket," finished Leverage dryly. "Which isn't any lead-pipe cinch, I'd say!" CHAPTER IV CARROLL HAS A VISITOR Carroll gazed intently upon the face of the dead man. There was a half quizzical light in the detective's eyes as he spoke, apparently to no one. "I've often thought," he said, "in a case like this, how much simpler things would be if the murdered man could talk." |
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