{"product_id":"2940015739282","title":"X Y Z A DETECTIVE STORY","description":"I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MYSTERIOUS RENDEZVOUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in\u003cbr\u003eferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue\u003cbr\u003eto another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or\u003cbr\u003ewith attendant circumstances of greater interest than in the instance I\u003cbr\u003eam now about to relate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor some time the penetration of certain Washington officials had been\u003cbr\u003ebaffled by the clever devices of a gang of counterfeiters who had\u003cbr\u003einundated the western portion of Massachusetts with spurious Treasury\u003cbr\u003enotes. Some of the best talent of the Secret Service had been expended\u003cbr\u003eupon the matter, but with no favorable result, when, one day, notice\u003cbr\u003ewas received at Washington that a number of suspicious-looking letters,\u003cbr\u003eaddressed to the simple initials, X. Y. Z., Brandon, Mass., were being\u003cbr\u003edaily forwarded through the mails of that region; and it being deemed\u003cbr\u003epossible that a clue had at last been offered to the mystery in hand, I\u003cbr\u003ewas sent northward to investigate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in the middle of June, 1881, and the weather was simply\u003cbr\u003edelightful. As I stepped from the cars at Brandon and looked up the long\u003cbr\u003estraight street with its double row of maple trees sparkling fresh and\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful in the noonday sun, I thought I had never seen a prettier\u003cbr\u003evillage or entered upon any enterprise with a lighter or more hopeful\u003cbr\u003eheart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntent on my task, I went straight to the post-office, and after coming\u003cbr\u003eto an understanding with the postmaster, proceeded at once to look over\u003cbr\u003ethe mail addressed to the mysterious X. Y. Z.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI found it to consist entirely of letters. They were about a dozen in\u003cbr\u003enumber, and were, with one exception, similar in general appearance and\u003cbr\u003emanner of direction, though inscribed in widely different handwritings,\u003cbr\u003eand posted from various New England towns. The exception to which I\u003cbr\u003eallude had these few extra words written in the lower left-hand corner\u003cbr\u003eof the envelope: \"_To be kept till called for._\" As I bundled up the\u003cbr\u003eletters preparatory to thrusting them back into the box, I noticed that\u003cbr\u003ethe latter was the only one in a blue envelope, all the others being in\u003cbr\u003ethe various shades of cream-color and buff.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176755446000,"sku":"2940015739282","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015739282","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}