文档介绍：THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERY
THE GOLF COURSE
MYSTERY
by Chester K. Steele
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THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERY
CHAPTER I
PUTTING OUT
There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its
flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy so
close at hand - that tragedy which so puzzled the authorities and which
came so close to wrecking the happiness of several innocent people.
The waters of the inlet sparkled like silver, and over those waters
poised the osprey, his rapidly moving wings and fan-spread tail
suspending him almost stationary in one spot, while, with eager and far-
seeing eyes, he peered into the depths below. The bird was a dark blotch
against the perfect blue sky for several seconds, and then, suddenly
folding his pinions and closing his tail, he darted downward like
a bomb dropped from an aeroplane.
There was a splash in the water, a shower of sparkling drops as the
osprey arose, a fish vainly struggling in its talons, and from a dusty gray
roadster, which had halted along the highway while the occupant watched
the hawk, there came an exclamation of satisfaction.
"Did you see that, Harry?" called the occupant of the gray car to a
slightly built, panion in a machine of vivid yellow, christened
by some who had ridden in it the "Spanish Omelet." "Did you see that
kill? As clean as a hound's tooth, and not a lost motion of a feather.
Some sport-that fish-hawk! Gad!"
"Yes, it was a neat bit of work, Gerry. But rather out of keeping with
the day."
"Out of keeping? What do you mean?"
"Well, out of tune, if you like that better. It's altogether too perfect a
day for a killing of any sort, seems to me."
"Oh, you're getting sentimental all at once, aren't you, Harry?" asked
Captain Gerry Poland, with just the trace of a covert sneer in his voice.
"I suppose you wouldn't have even a fish-hawk get a much needed meal
on a bright, sunshiny day, when, if ever, he must have a whale of an
appetite