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Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective

"Of course, I will, Anna. Your name is Anna, isn't it?"

The girl was rapidly recovering her self possession. "I thought you ought to know what happened Tuesday night. I was passing the door of the library—it was fairly late, about ten o'clock, I think—when I heard a man's voice inside the room. It was a loud, angry voice like that of a person in a quarrel. Then I heard a second voice, lower and much calmer."

"Did you recognize the speakers?"

"They were Mr. Rennick and Senator Duffield!"

I caught my breath. "You said one of them was angry. Which was it?"

"Oh, it was the Senator! He was very much excited and worked up. Mr. Rennick seemed to be speaking very low."

"What were they saying, Anna?" I tried to make my tones careless and indifferent, but they trembled in spite of myself,

"I couldn't catch what Mr. Rennick said. The Senator was saying some dreadful things. I remember he cried, 'You swindlers!' And then a bit later 'I have evidence that should put you and your thieving crew behind the bars!' I think that is all. I was too bewildered to—"

A stir on the lawn interrupted the sentence.

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