Transcriber's Notes:
1. Page scan source: The Internet Web Archive
https://books.google.com/books?id=MUtBAQAAMAAJ
(the New York Public Library)
"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 AugustusS. F. X. Van Dusen was named were afterward acquired by that gentlemanin the course of a brilliant scientific career, and, being honorablyacquired, were tacked on to the other end. His name, therefore, takenwith all that belonged to it, was a wonderfully imposing structure. Hewas a Ph.D., an LL.D., an F.R.S., an M.D., and an M.D.S. He was alsosome other things--just what he himself couldn't say--throughrecognition of his ability by various foreign educational andscientific institutions.
In appearance he was no less striking than in nomenclature. He wasslender with the droop of the student in his thin shoulders and thepallor of a close, sedentary life on his clean-shaven face. His eyeswore a perpetual, forbidding squint--the squint of a man who studieslittle things--and when they could be seen at all through his thickspectacles, were mere slits of watery blue. But above his eyes was hismost striking feature. T