The Golden Slipper Author:Anna Katharine Green Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROBLEM III AN INTANGIBLE CLUE "TJAVE you studied the case?" 1 "Not I." "Not studied the case which for the last few days has provided the papers with s... more »uch conspicuous headlines?" "I do not read the papers. I have not looked at one in a whole week." "Miss Strange, your social engagements must be of a very pressing nature just now?" "They are." "And your business sense in abeyance?" "How so?" "You would not ask if you had read the papers." To this she made no reply save by a slight toss of her pretty head. If her employer felt nettled by this show of indifference, he did not betray it save by the rapidity of his tones as, without further preamble and possibly without real excuse, he proceeded to lay before her the case in question. "Last Tuesday night a woman was murdered in this city; an old woman, in a lonely house where she has lived for years. Perhaps you remember this house? It occupies a not inconspicuous site in Seventeenth Street—a house of the olden time? " "No, I do not remember." The extreme carelessness of Miss Strange's tone would have been fatal to her socially; but then, she ' would never have used it socially. This they both knew, yet he smiled with his customary indulgence. "Then I will describe it." She looked around for a chair and sank into it. He did the same. "It has a fanlight over the front door." She remained impassive. "And two old-fashioned strips of parti-coloured glass on either side." "And a knocker between its panels which may bring money some day." "Oh, you do remember! I thought you would, Miss Strange." "Yes. Fanlights over doors are becoming very rare in New York." "Very well, then. That house was the scene of Tuesday's tragedy. The woman who has lived there in solitude for years wa...« less