"There was no doubt in the mind of the registrar as to the
authenticity of the will for was it not duly signed and witnessed by
Dr. Bannister, a physician of the highest repute, and Lawyer Colbert,
a bright and shining light of the legal profession?"
"Your story taxes my credulity," said Quincy, "but I will not allow
it to break our friendship. Tom, kindly ring for that supper to be
sent up." He looked at his watch. "Doctor, you've time to spare. 'Tis
only nine-thirty."
CHAPTER XXXI
THE GREAT ISBURN RUBY
Mr. Irving Isburn, the proprietor of the great detective bureau was
over seventy years of age, and, although he still had a general
supervision over the business, and was in his office for a short time
anyway, nearly every day, he was leaving the details more and more to
his subordinates. From the very beginning Mary Dana had made
wonderful improvement in her detective work, and the results of her
last case, on which she had been kept in the West for several months,
were so satisfactory that she was given practically the entire
management of the Bureau.
One day, shortly after her return from the West, Mr. Isburn called
her into his private office. He took great interest in electrical
inventions, and had one in his office of a decidedly novel design.
Back of his office chair, standing against the wall, just behind the
door that led into the hallway, was a mahogany bookcase fully seven
feet in height.
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