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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by the Baroness Orsy

The Nine Score Mystery. Chapter 1

Well, you know, some say she is the daughter of a Duke,

others that she was born in the gutter,

and that the handle has been sodded on to her name in order to give her style and influence.

I could say a lot, of course, but my lips are sealed, as the poets say.

All through her successful career at the yard, she honored me with her friendship and confidence,

but when she took me in partnership, as it were, she made me promise that I would never

breathe a word of her private life.

And this I swore on my Bible oath, wish I may die and all the rest of it.

Yes, we always called her my lady from the moment that she was put at the head of our section and

the chief called her Lady Molly in our presence.

We of the female department are dreadfully snubbed by the men, though don't tell me that women have not ten times as much

intuition as the blundering and sterner sex.

My firm belief is that we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if some of the so-called

mysteries were put to the test of feminine investigation.

Do you suppose for a moment, for instance, that the truth about that extraordinary case at 9 score would ever have

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