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Title: The Winning Clue

Author: James Hay, Jr.

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Language: English

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THE WINNING CLUE

by

JAMES HAY, Jr.

Author of The Man Who Forgot, Etc.

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Copyright, 1919
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

TO GRAHAM B. NICHOL
AS A LITTLE TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. Strangled

II. "Something Big in It"

III. The Ruby Ring

IV. Two Trails

V. The Husband's Story

VI. Morley Is in a Hurry

VII. Miss Fulton Is Hysterical

VIII. The Breath of Scandal

IX. Women's Nerves

X. Eyes of Accusation

XI. The $1,000 Check

XII. The Man with the Gold Tooth

XIII. Lucy Thomas Talks

XIV. The Pawn Broker Takes the Trail

XV. Braceway Sees a Light

XVI. A Message from Miss Fulton

XVII. Miss Fulton's Revelation

XVIII. What's Braceway's Game?

XIX. At the Anderson National Bank

XX. The Discovery of the Jewels

XXI. Bristow Solves a Problem

XXII. A Confession

XXIII. On the Rack

XXIV. Miss Fulton Writes a Letter

XXV. A Mystifying Telegram

XXVI. Wanted: Vengeance

XXVII. The Revelation

XXVIII. Confession Voluntary

XXIX. The Last Card

THE WINNING CLUE

CHAPTER I

STRANGLED

When a woman's voice, pitched to the high note of utter terror, rang out
on the late morning quiet of Manniston Road, Lawrence Bristow looked up
from his newspaper quickly but vaguely, as if he doubted his own ears. He
was reading an account of a murder committed in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and
the shrieks he had just heard fitted in so well with the paragraph then
before his eyes that his imagination might have been playing him tricks.
He was allowed, however, little tim