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Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective

"Aren't we veering from the subject, Miss Mack?" Detective Wiley broke in impatiently.

"Do you think so?" Madelyn's eyes rested on his florid face. "I was particularly interested, Nora, in your account of the bride's coiffure. I agree with you that it was decidedly becoming. I remember that you mentioned that her point d'esprit veil was fastened by two long pins, each with a sterling silver ball as a head."

A sudden light broke over me. "And the silver ball that was found in Norris Endicott's room was one of those, of course!"

Madelyn smiled. "Your penetration amazes me! It was your own report of the case that gave me my first and most important clue before we left this house.

"I think you will agree that my inference was plain enough. Miss Van Sutton had visited Norris Endicott's room after she was dressed for the ceremony—and consequently just before his disappearance. She had kept the fact secret—and she was so agitated that she did not miss the loss of a valuable hair ornament. Why?

"There was another question that I put to myself. How had she reached the room? The discovery of the silver ball on the sill suggested, of course, the window. What was under the window? Here I found that a second-story veranda extended

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