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The Spruce Street Tragedy; or, Old Spicer Handles a Double Mystery

Irvin S. Cobb
The Spruce Street Tragedy / or, Old Spicer Handles a Double Mystery

CHAPTER I.
THE SPRUCE STREET MURDER

"Hark! I thought I heard the outside door open and shut."

"No, it was nothing."

"Are you sure?"

"Quite sure, Seth."

"What time is it now, Spicer?"

"Half-past seven."

"Half-past seven, and George not here yet!"

"He don't seem to have shown up, that's a fact."

"What can be keeping the fellow?"

"There you've got me, Seth. He's usually prompt enough, you know."