"No Clue!": A Mystery Story

by James Hay

TO
WILLIAM ("BUCK") HAY

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CONTENTS

• CHAPTER
• [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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"NO CLUE!"

I

THE GREY ENVELOPE

Catherine Brace walked slowly from the mantel-piece to the open window and back again. Within the last hour she had done that many times, always to halt before the mantel and gaze at the oblong, grey envelope that leaned against the clock. Evidently, she regarded it as a powerful agency. An observer would have perceived that she saw tremendous things come out of it—and that she considered them with mingled satisfaction and defiance.