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更多好书请点击 THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERY THE GOLF COURSE MYSTERY by Chester K. Steele 1 更多好书请点击 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, bronzed companion 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 hounds tooth, and not a lost motion of a feather. Some sport-that fish-hawk! Gad! Yes, it was a neat bit o