You probably don't know it, but it has been
privately reported in the inner circle of the University that old
Fletcher was to leave the bulk of his fortune to found a great
school of preventive medicine, and that the only proviso was that
his nephew should be dean of the school. The professor told me
over the wire that the will was missing from the safe, and that
it was the only thing missing. From his excitement I judge that
there is more to the story than he cared to tell over the 'phone.
He said his car was on the way to the city, and he asked if I
wouldn't come and help him--he wouldn't say how. Now, I know him
pretty well, and I'm going to ask you to come along, Walter, for
the express purpose of keeping this thing out of the newspapers
understand?--until we get to the bottom of it."
A few minutes later the telephone rang and the hall-boy announced
that the car was waiting. We hurried down to it; the chauffeur
lounged down carelessly into his seat and we were off across the
city and river and out on the road to Great Neck with amazing
speed.
Already I began to feel something of Kennedy's zest for the
adventure. I found myself half a dozen times on the point of
hazarding a suspicion, only to relapse again into silence at the
inscrutable look on Kennedy's face.
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