ASHTON-KIRK
ASHTON-KIRK1
INVESTIGATOR
BY
John T. McIntyre
Author of "In the Dead of Night," &c.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
RALPH L. BOYERPHILADELPHIA1910To my FriendGRANT GIBNEY
INTRODUCTION
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who knowhim best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker inhis chosen field. He smiles when men call him a detective. "No; only an investigator," he says.He has never courted notoriety; indeed, his life has been more or less secluded. However, let a man doremarkable work in any line and, as Emerson has observed, "the world will make a beaten path to his door."Those who have found their way to Ashton-Kirk's door have been of many races and interests. Men of sciencehave often been surprised to find him in touch with the latest discoveries, scholars searching among strangetongues and dialects, and others deep in tattered scrolls, ancient tablets and forgotten books have been hisfrequent visitors. But among them come many who seek his help in solving problems in crime."I'm more curious than some other fellows, that's all," is the way he accounts for himself. "If a puzzle is put infront of me I can't rest till I know the answer." At any rate his natural bent has always been to make plain themysterious; each well hidden step in the perpetration of a crime has always been for him an exciting lure; andto follow a thread, snarled by circumstances or by another intelligence has been, he admits, his chief delight.INVESTIGATOR2
There are many strange things to be written of this remarkable man—but this, the case of the numismatistHume, has been selected as the first because it is one of the simplest, and yet clearly illustrates Ashton-Kirk'speculiar talents. It will also throw some light on the question, often asked, as to how his cases come to him.A second volume that shows the investigator deep in another mystery, even more intricate and puzzling thanthis, is entitled "Ashton-Kirk and the Scarlet Scapular."
CONTENTS
I. PENDLETON CALLS UPON ASHTON-KIRKII. MISS EDYTH VALE STATES HER CASEIII. THE PORTRAITS OF GENERAL WAYNEIV. STILLMAN'S THEORYV. STILLMAN ASKS QUESTIONSVI. ASHTON-KIRK LOOKS ABOUTVII. THE SCHWARTZ-MICHAEL BAYONETVIII. THE NEWSPAPERS BEGIN TO PLAY THEIR PARTIX. MISS VALE TELLS WHAT SHE KNOWSX. ASHTON-KIRK ASKS QUESTIONSXI. PENDLETON IS VASTLY ENLIGHTENEDXII. ANTONIO SPATOLA APPEARSXIII. A NEW LIGHT ON ALLAN MORRISXIV. MISS VALE UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARSXV. MISS VALE DEPARTS SUDDENLYXVI. STEEL AGAINST STEELXVII. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ROADXVIII. ASHTON-KIRK TELLS WHYXIX. THE TWO REPORTSXX. ONE OF THE OLD SORTThe Project Gutenberg eBook of Ashton-kirk Investigator, by John T. McintyreINTRODUCTION3
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