"Miss Leavenworth, the key
to the library door is missing."

She made no answer.

"It has been testified to,
that previous to the actual
discovery of the murder,
you visited the door of the
library above. Will you tell
us if the key to the door
was there in the lock?"

"It was not."

Anna K. Green Rohlfs]




THE CHIEF LEGATEE




PART I

A Woman of Mystery