The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-05
DOROTHY ARNOLD
NEW YORK MYSTERY
EVERY POSSIBLE ClEW HAS
REEN EXHAUSTED SINCE THE
GIRLS DISAPPEARANCE DEC. 12.

Such has been the result of New
York's search for Dorothy Arnold OF
los East Seventy-ninth Street. And
such has been the result of the work
of the police of nearly every other
city of the United States, for Dorothy
Arnolds disappearance did not long
office of every chief of police OF the
country, and of Mexico and Canada
and a good many cities of Europe
there now is a printed folder which
bears the warning, Missing with a
description of the girl who cannot be
| found.
1t was on the morning of December
~ that Dorothy Arnold turned from
the telephone in her home and called
to her mother
Il am going downtown" she said ;
III | see anything that | like | will
telephone you"
But shall not go with you?' the
mother asked.
NO; YOU stay here. I'll not be gone
long"
Eefore that Miss Arnold had told
her mother that she did not believe
she would go downtown, because a
friend with whom she had planned to
go shopping could not accompany her.
The mother again asked her daugh.
ter if she should not accompany her
The answer was in the negative. Then
| the girl left the house, clad in a shop
ping dress six months old, and al
! though the day was wintry one
without the fur neckpiece to match
the muff she carried.
A Book, and Then
Later in the day the girl appeared
in bookstore, far below the shop
ping district, bought a book, went
from there to candy store and then
Miss Arnold has not been seen
since. No tangible clew has beer
found that would enable her father
Francis Arnold, the importer, to learn
anything of her whereabouts no word
has come from her; not even a good
theory has been advanced to show
what has become of the girl.
In the days of Sherlock Holmes
when Doctor Watson would look with
astonished eyes at his morphine in
jecting contemporary, the other woult
smile at the remarks of marvellous
and simply exclaim:
1T is easy, my dear Watson
merely a system of deduction and ell
imination But Sherlock Holmes was
only a character of fiction His cases
could be doctored to fit the occasion
in the mind of the writer. Some
where in the long chain of mystery
some weak link would be constructed
by the creative hand. a link that inc
vitabiy would be discovered by the de
tective. This happens also many times
in real life, but now and then, as the
years go by there comes a case where
every link of mystery is equally
strong and capable of keeping the so,
luton of the case a captive Such
a case is the disappearance of Dor.
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hnI ,sarly
able writer, Flaubert. viii YOU give
me another cigaret, please?"
A moment later she rose Good
night. Mr.. Biddulph. Thanks, so
much.
Goodnight, ladies'"
He closed the door softly after
them an dsat down. Amazing And
rather a pity.
Suddenly he door opened and Pan
sy came in.
Il say" she began hastily. I'm
afraid you are worried. Well-it was
Joke. We planned it. | got thai
about Flaubert out OF an article in
the Saturday Review about another
of your books"
But"
AS 10 the key, it hasn't even
touched your box since you closed
It,"
Are you in earnest YOU little
wretch?" he ,augned croaNngly:
'you-you- -am-amaze me-"
Il give you my word of honor the
key was in my pocket until We heard
you coming. lt-my word of honor"
Quite bewildered. he sat by the
fire and tried to remember what
the two girls had said to convince
him that they had read the book, !
but it was all vague in his mind |
And then, remembering her word of |
honor with something like relief. he |
took up book and began to read |
UPSTAIRS Miss I.ydden and Miss /