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Look Out
"Look out for a shot," warned
The Thinking Machine sharply. p. 332
THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13
By
JACQUES FUTRELLE
Author of "The Chase of the Golden Plate," "The Haunted Bell," etc.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1905-1906, by American-Journal-Examiner
(Copyright, 1907, by Dodd, Mead & Co.
Under the title of "The Thinking Machine")
By courtesy of William Randolph Hearst
To
those two persons who made The Thinking Machine possible
J. L. E.,
who opened the way, and
L. M. F.,
who guided, advised and encouraged the hand that labored,
these tales are gratefully dedicated.
CONTENTS
The Problem of Cell 13.
The Scarlet Thread.
The Man Who Was Lost
The Great Auto Mystery
The Flaming Phantom
The Ralston Bank Burglary
The Mystery of a Studio.
THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13
I.
Practically all those letters remaining in the alphabet
after Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen was named were afterward
acquired by that gentleman in the course of a brilliant
scientific career, and, being honorably acquired, were
tacked on to the other end. His name, therefore, taken
with all that belonged to it, was a wonderfully imposing
structure. He was a Ph.D., an LL.D., an F.R.S., an M.D.,
and an M.D.S. He was also some other things--just what he
himself couldn't say--through recognition of his ability
by various foreign educational and scientific
institutions.
In appearance he was no less striking than in
nomenclature. He was slender with the droop of the student
in his thin shoulders and the pallor of a close, sedentary
life on his clean-shaven face. His eyes wore a perpetual,
forbidding squint--the squint of a man who studies little
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