: The Man in Lower Ten by Rinehart Mary Roberts - Detective and mystery stories; Murder Fiction; Railroad travel Fiction Bestsellers American 1895-1923

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I I GO TO PITTSBURG

II A TORN TELEGRAM

V THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT CAR

VI THE GIRL IN BLUE

X MISS WEST'S REQUEST

XX THE NOTES AND A BARGAIN

XXX FINER DETAILS

THE MAN IN LOWER TEN

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners' dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.

McKnight could tell the story a great deal better than I, although he can not spell three consecutive words correctly. But, while he has imagination and humor, he is lazy.

"It didn't happen to me, anyhow," he protested, when I put it up to him. "And nobody cares for second-hand thrills. Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer."

So am I, although there have been times when my assumption in that particular has been disputed. I am unmarried, and just old enough to dance with the grown-up little sisters of the girls I used to know. I am fond of outdoors, prefer horses to the aforesaid grown-up little sisters, am without sentiment and completely ruled and frequently routed by my housekeeper, an elderly widow.

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