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}{iss Edythe Thomas arose from her breakfast table, walked to tho window, looked out over Tenth Stroot, returned to her desk and began to examine her mail.
.Miss Thomas was very nervous this morning, and for an extremely good 1·eason, too; because it was her day to prove that she was a better detective than any man on the AU-Star Detective Force. She was to commit two crimes, or rather, to commit one crime herself and to have another crime com- mitted by somebody else. The Chief had told her that, if Too Bitts, the crack detective of the force, could distinguish -\vhich of tho two crimes she herself committed, she would haYe to pay for the Chief's eat's kittens' milk until they were grown, but, on the other hand, if this blond young lady, for blond she was, could "spoof" Too Bitts into mistaking the rrime she did not do for the crime that she did do, she would be appointed to the high office of private detective to the firm of "Blud and Corpse, Undertakers."
Well, to return t~ the story: Miss Thomas looked through her mail with utmost care. Then pulling on her hat and her fur coat, she walked out into the thoroughfare and hailed a taxicab. When she told the driver where she·wished to go, the man looked startled; then, composing himself, he stopped on the gas and the car rolled silently away from the curb. About seven minutes later the taxi stopped in front of the