CHAPTER XVII

TWO WILLS (_Tuesday, November 30; 8 p. m._) Eight o’clock that night found Inspector Moran, Sergeant Heath, Markham, Vance, and me seated about a small conference-table in one of the Stuyvesant Club’s private rooms. The evening papers had created a furore in the city with their melodramatic accounts of Rex Greene’s murder; and these early stories were, as we all knew, but the mild fore-runners of what the morning journals would publish. The situation itself, without the inevitable impending stric…