Chapter 1. A Camera Crime
_ CHAPTER I. A CAMERA CRIME
"Camera!"
Kennedy and I had been hastily summoned from his laboratory in the city by District-Attorney Mackay, and now stood in the luxurious, ornate library in the country home of Emery Phelps, the banker, at Tarrytown.
"Camera!--you know the call when the director is ready to shoot a scene of a picture?--well--at the moment it was given and the first and second camera men began to grind--she crumpled--sank to the floor--unconscious!"
Hot and excited, Mackay endeavored to reenact his case for us with all the histrionic ability of a popular prosecutor before a jury.
"There‘s where she dropped--they carried her over here to this davenport--sent for Doctor Blake--but he couldn‘t do a thing for her. She died--just as you see her. Blake thought the matter so serious, so alarming, that he advised an immediate investigation. That‘s why I called you so urgently."
Before us lay the body of the girl, remarkably beautiful ev

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