Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers

It was a good story -- the story which the mayor, Max, the professor and Magee read with varying emotions there in the smoking-car. The girl had served her employers well, and Mr. Magee, as he read, felt a thrill of pride in her. Evidently the employers had felt that same thrill. For in the captions under the pictures, in the head-lines, and in a first-page editorial, none of which the girl had written, the _Star_ spoke admiringly of its woman reporter who had done a man's work -- who had gone to Baldpate Inn and had brought back a gigantic bribe fund "alone and unaided".

"Indeed? " smiled Mr. Magee to himself.