CHAPTER XXIII

CHECKING AN ALIBI (_Thursday, June 20; 10.30 a.m._) The Chatham Arms, where Major Benson lived, was a small exclusive bachelor apartment-house in Forty-sixth Street, midway between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The entrance, set in a simple and dignified façade, was flush with the street, and only two steps above the pavement. The front door opened into a narrow hallway with a small reception room, like a _cul-de-sac_, on the left. At the rear could be seen the elevator; and beside it, tucked under a …