Clues Detective Stories May 1936 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Clues Detective Stories
Published: 1936-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

THREE CARS stopped at three different points in New York at approximately the same time, within the next hour. And the three people who got out of the cars were all smiling.

Mrs. Dodge smiled at the neat trick she had put over the jewel buyer, Zoretti. Having that girl drop the tray of dishes was an invention worthy of an artiste!

It had been so simple, during the brief moment of excitement, to change the two velvet-covered boxes in her bag. The box she handed Zoretti had contained the paste string made some years previously—an exact copy of the DuBois pearls. The trick had been so simple. Zoretti would not dare raise a fuss, and she had her pearls and the hundred thousand dollars as well. She had a good reason to smile!

Roger Manwell smiled as he entered his apartment. He touched his pocket which contained the velvet box he had so adroitly lifted from Zoretti’s pocket, as the car had swung around the corner into Fifth Avenue. Manwell whistled cheerfully, to think he now owned the famous DuBois pearls, and Zoretti had a jewel box containing a string of pearls which Manville had picked up in a ten-cent store.

He was registered in his apartment under another name, and he would leave town at once. Let Zoretti try and locate him! Manwell smiled again as he closed the door, locked it, and reached into his pocket.

Paul Zoretti smiled as he entered his office, hung his hat on the rack. He had reason to smile. He was now the owner of the DuBois pearls worth a fortune the way he could dispose of them, through his various channels. And he smiled still more broadly, as he visioned the picture of Mrs. Dodge’s wrath when she commenced counting the hundred thousand dollars in counterfeit money he had paid her for the pearls!

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