Gypsy Vengeance

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Detective Joe Cardona made the statement as he studied the body on the slab. Ace detective of the New York headquarters, Cardona was an expert at classifying members of the various nationalities found in cosmopolitan Manhattan.

The ace was standing in the city morgue. The body which he surveyed was not a pleasant sight. It was the puffy, water-logged form of a dark-skinned man — a trophy which the police had that afternoon reclaimed from the sullen waters of the Hudson River.

Cardona’s statement of the drowned man’s nationality was recorded by two persons standing by. These were newspaper reporters: one was Clyde Burke, a frail but wiry fellow who worked on the New York Classic. The other, a scrawny chap who blinked through tortoise shell spectacles, was Tommy Holson, of the New York Sphere.

Along with these stood Detective Sergeant Markham. He was the headquarters man in charge of the case. It was Markham who had sent for Joe Cardona.

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