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Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective

"That I have discovered the body of Norris Endicott? You have caught my meaning exactly!"

Wiley stood staring at her in a sort of tongue-tied amazement. A gasp recalled me to the other occupants of the room. Bertha Van Sutton was devouring Madelyn's face as though pleading with her to end her suspense. Her father was stroking her hand.

Madelyn stepped to the door and threw it open. On the threshold stood a young man in a brown tweed suit, with a purple lump showing just at the edge of his hair. He stared at us as though he were dazed by a sudden light.

Bertha Van Sutton darted across the room, with a cry, and threw herself into his arms.

It was Norris Endicott.

Madelyn sprang to her side, with a query intensely practical—and intensely feminine. "Has she fainted?"

"I—I think so." Norris Endicott stood gazing down at his burden helplessly.

"We must carry her into the next room then—take hold of her shoulders, please! No, the rest of you stand back! It needs a woman to take care of a woman!"

Detective Wiley strode over to the desk telephone and called police headquarters. He had just turned

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