[The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link bookThe Four Pools Mystery CHAPTER VIII 3/15
Are the facts straight and have the missing bonds turned up? If not, don't you want me to run down and find them for you? Should like to meet an authenticated ghost. Wouldn't be a bad Sunday feature article.
Give it my love.
Is it a man or lady? Things are also moving nicely in New York--two murders and a child abducted in one week. "How are crops? "Yours truly, "T.
P. "Wire me if you want me." The clipping was headed, "Spook Cracks Safe," and was a fairly accurate account of the ha'nt and the robbery.
It ended with the remark that the mystery was as yet unsolved, but that the best detective talent in the country had been engaged on the case. I tossed the letter to Radnor with a laugh; he had already heard of Terry's connection with the Patterson-Pratt affair. "Perhaps we couldn't do better than to get him down," I suggested; "he's most abnormally keen at ferreting out a mystery that promises any news--if any one can learn the truth about those bonds, he can." "I don't want to know the truth," Radnor growled.
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