Nick Carter, Master Detective - Murder Goes to College

Nick Carter and his assistant Pasty Bowen are in Nick's car racing toward Mount Albin's College for Girls in response to a hurried phone call from the dean of the school. Patsy says "But if this girl killed herself, Nick, what are you supposed to do? When a girl kills herself, there's no criminal to catch". Nick says "If it was suicide, Dean Margaret Collingwood wants me to find the reason for it". Patsy says "Oh, isn't that a little out of your line?" Nick says "Well, yes, it is, Patsy, but she's an old friend of mine, so I said I'd do it". Patsy asks "But why does she care why the girl killed herself?" Nick says "Oh, she thinks that if some of the parents felt that the girl disliked the school enough to kill herself to get out of it, they'll take their own daughters out of Mount Albin's in droves. The school will be ruined". Patsy asks "How did she die?" Nick says "The dean said she found a box of sleeping capsules on the table beside the girl's bed, together with an empty water glass. She thought they might be the cause". Soon after arriving at the college, Nick is interviewing Margaret. He asks "Have you notified the police yet, Margaret?" She says "Why, no. I wanted you to look things over first, Nick". He says "I see. Who found the body?". Margaret says "When Miss Jordan failed to appear for breakfast, one of the maids was sent to see if she needed help or if she were ill. When no one answered the maid's knock, why of course she came back to me". Nick asks "Then you found her?" Margaret says "Yes, I found her dead".