the sheet.
found it looked as if I was going to be one of He glanced up as he finished reading.
the main suspects, I knew I had to work fast. I
“This appears to be a very intimate
remember the way Rex was always boasting
love letter from Mrs. Harvey to Doctor about the secret compartment in that trick Whitehurst,” he remarked. “Where and when
chair. Then when I noticed the compartment did you get this?”
wasn’t open I decided the police hadn’t looked
“When we were visiting them last there, so I pushed the button that opened it.”
summer,” Eileen answered. “I picked this up
“Good thing you did,” said Conway.
where the colored boy, who Mrs. Harvey and
“It solved the case.”
the doctor used as a messenger, dropped it. I
“Sure.”
Bill
Winston took his wife by
kept it to salve my own conscience I told
the arm and possessively led her toward the myself that I was not hurting her. Rex’s love door. “I’ve been pretty weak, but from now on for her was dead long ago—just as he is now.
I’m going to be a reformed character.” He
I didn’t know the doctor had killed him but I looked hard at Eileen. “The next time I catch suspected he might have done it.” She looked you making sheep eyes at another man I’m
pleadingly at her husband. “Oh, Bill, I’ve been going to give you a good crack in the jaw.
such a fool!”
Remember that!”
“The set-up tonight was too good for
“Yes, Bill.” There was a new note of
Whitehurst to pass up,” Conway said. “With respect in Eileen’s voice. “I’ll remember, any kind of a break for him, either you, darling.”
Winston, Major Bloodworth, or Mrs. Harvey
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