that I should work with, not against, the regular detectives. They
are all right, in fact indispensable. Half the secret of success
nowadays is efficiency and organization. What I do believe is that
organization plus science is what is necessary."

The local undertaking establishment was rather poorly equipped to
take the place of a morgue and the authorities were making
preparations 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 up nothing, not even the report which we had
already received from McBirney regarding the blood-stained car
that resembled Warrington's.

We arrived with the coroner fortunately just before the removal of
the body to the city and by his courtesy were able to see it
without any trouble.

Death, and especially violent death, are at best grewsome
subjects, but when to that are added the sordid surroundings of a
country undertaker's and the fact that the victim is a woman, it
all becomes doubly tragic.

She was a rather flashily dressed girl, but remarkably good
looking, in spite of the rouge and powder which had long since
spoiled what might otherwise have been a clear and fine
complexion. The roots of her hair showed plainly that it had been
bleached.

Garrick examined the body closely, and more especially the jagged
wound in the breast. I bent over also. It seemed utterly