{"product_id":"2940013081208","title":"THE HOLLADAY CASE","description":"CHAPTER                                       PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE,                     1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. IN THE GRIP OF CIRCUMSTANCE,             15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III. THE COIL TIGHTENS,                       37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV. I HAVE AN INSPIRATION,                   56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V. I DINE WITH A FASCINATING STRANGER,      70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI. GODFREY'S PANEGYRIC,                     90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII. MISS HOLLADAY BECOMES CAPRICIOUS,       101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MAID,                    114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX. I MEET MONSIEUR MARTIGNY,               131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X. AN ASTONISHING DISAPPEARANCE,           146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI. I UNMASK MY ENEMY,                      165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII. AT THE CAFÉ JOURDAIN,                   183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII. EN VOYAGE,                              197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. I PROVE A BAD SENTINEL,                 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE,          229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. I BEARD THE LION,                       247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII. ETRETAT,                                270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. THE VEIL IS LIFTED,                     280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. THE END OF THE STORY,                   293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOLLADAY CASE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Bolt from the Blue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe atmosphere of the office that morning was a shade less genial than\u003cbr\u003eusual. We had all of us fought our way downtown through such a storm\u003cbr\u003eof wind, snow, slush, and sleet as is to be found nowhere save in\u003cbr\u003emid-March New York, and our tempers had suffered accordingly. I had\u003cbr\u003efound a cab unobtainable, and there was, of course, the inevitable jam\u003cbr\u003eon the Elevated, with the trains many minutes behind the schedule. I\u003cbr\u003ewas some half-hour late, in consequence, and when I entered the inner\u003cbr\u003eoffice, I was surprised to find Mr. Graham, our senior, already at his\u003cbr\u003edesk. He nodded good-morning a little curtly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I wish you'd look over these papers in the Hurd case, Lester,\" he\u003cbr\u003esaid, and pushed them toward me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI took them and sat down; and just then the outer door slammed with a\u003cbr\u003eviolence extremely unusual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had never seen Mr. Royce, our junior, so deeply shaken, so visibly\u003cbr\u003edistracted, as he was when he burst in upon us a moment later, a\u003cbr\u003enewspaper in his hand. Mr. Graham, startled by the noise of his\u003cbr\u003eentrance, wheeled around from his desk and stared at him in\u003cbr\u003eastonishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, upon my word, John,\" he began, \"you look all done up. What's the\u003cbr\u003ematter?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Matter enough, sir!\" and Mr. Royce spread out the paper on the desk\u003cbr\u003ebefore him. \"You haven't seen the morning papers, of course; well,\u003cbr\u003elook at that!\" and he indicated with a trembling finger the article\u003cbr\u003ewhich occupied the first column of the first page--the place of\u003cbr\u003ehonor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI saw our senior's face change as he read the headlines, and he seemed\u003cbr\u003epositively horror-stricken as he ran rapidly through the story which\u003cbr\u003efollowed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, this is the most remarkable thing I ever read!\" he burst out at\u003cbr\u003elast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable!\" cried the other. \"Why, it's a damnable outrage, sir! The\u003cbr\u003eidea that a gentle, cultured girl like Frances Holladay would\u003cbr\u003edeliberately murder her own father--strike him down in cold blood--is\u003cbr\u003etoo monstrous, too absolutely preposterous, too--too----\" and he\u003cbr\u003estopped, fairly choked by his emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe words brought me upright in my chair. Frances Holladay accused\u003cbr\u003eof--well!--no wonder our junior was upset!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Mr. Graham was reading through the article again more carefully,\u003cbr\u003eand while he nodded sympathetically to show that he fully assented to\u003cbr\u003ethe other's words, a straight, deep line of perplexity, which I had\u003cbr\u003ecome to recognize, formed between his eyebrows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Plainly,\" he said at last, \"the whole case hinges on the evidence of\u003cbr\u003ethis man Rogers--Holladay's confidential clerk--and from what I know\u003cbr\u003eof Rogers, I should say that he'd be the last man in the world to make\u003cbr\u003ea willful misstatement. He says that Miss Holladay entered her\u003cbr\u003efather's office late yesterday afternoon, stayed there ten minutes,\u003cbr\u003eand then came out hurriedly. A few minutes later Rogers went into the\u003cbr\u003eoffice and found his employer dead. That's the whole case, but it'll\u003cbr\u003ebe a hard one to break.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, it must be broken!\" retorted the other, pulling himself\u003cbr\u003etogether with a supreme effort. \"Of course, I'll take the case.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of course!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Miss Holladay probably sent for me last night, but I was out at\u003cbr\u003eBabylon, you know, looking up that witness in the Hurd affair. He'll\u003cbr\u003ebe all right, and his evidence will give us the case. Our answer in\u003cbr\u003ethe Brown injunction can wait till to-morrow. That's all, I think.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chief nodded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes--I see the inquest is to begin at ten o'clock. 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