32. Very clever and very simple! The
murderer of two people and the would-be murderer of a third had had only
to unscrew the metal covering of the register, wedge the end of the
silencer into one of the many holes, replace the screws, and paste the
end of the string, drawn through another hole hidden by the tapestry, to
a page of the book he had selected as the one most likely to appeal to a
detective as a clue source....
No, wait! He had had to do more! Dundee bent and examined the metal
cover of the register. The circumference of the hole the murderer had
chosen as the one which would be directly in front of Dundee's heart
gleamed brightly. It had been necessary to enlarge it considerably. _The
murderer had left a trace after all!_
But the book was open in Dundee's hands and his eyes rapidly scanned
page 410. And he found what the murderer had not expected him to live to
read, but which he had counted on as an explanation of the note which
the police would have puzzled over, if all had gone well with his
scheme....
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Dundee laughed, the parrot which had saved his life echoing his mirth
raucously, as his eyes hit upon the following lines of fine print
halfway down the third column of page 410 of "Who's Who in America":
BURNS, William John, detective; b.
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