Chapter 8: The Azure Ring

The Azure Ring Files of newspapers and innumerable clippings from the press bureaus littered Kennedy’s desk in rank profusion. Kennedy himself was so deeply absorbed that I had merely said good evening as I came in and had started to open my mail. With an impatient sweep of his hand, however, he brushed the whole mass of newspapers into the wastebasket. “It seems to me, Walter,” he exclaimed in disgust, “that this mystery is considered insoluble for the very reason which should make it eas…