Mystery Murder
nce Bolton wiggled a finger to indicate the red leather chair that would put her facing him, but for me. The desk at right angles to Bolton's was n
had belonged, and aske
rtai
was very lookable, even in a pickle. "I would like," I
o.
, method two, the truth. Nelly
Ye
let you ta
Ye
"I asked
d you as
. . it's a
as you can. We may
ke it. She's very unconventional. She had money she had inherited, and she bought a cab and a license about a year ago. She cruises when she fee
" Bolton demand
Not divorced, but she uses her own name. F
ast night when I was with her and told her to come for him at eight o'clock this evening, and I asked Judy to let me go instead of her. I have been trying to see hi
it. G
n o'clock I went to her place and she brought it from the ga
is her
Number seventeen
u got in the
Ferrell Street. It's
w where
t a year. I got there a little before eight, and turned around and parked in front of the alley. Judy had said she always waited for him there. He didn't com
sure of t
ed at my watc
oes it s
rist. "Two minute
went throug
e it was too dark and I had the cap pulled down. Of course it could have been Daniel, his man as he calls him, playing the radio, but I don't think so because he would have heard the knocker and come to the door. I finally gave up and went back to the cab, and as I was getting in
o wa
he couldn't expect him to marry her, and neither could anyone else. But I wasn't thinking about that while I sat there, I was thinking what to do. I knew the right thing was to call the
u left the cab to go to the house at
ooked in at the windows, and then knocked some
ere to here wouldn't take more than ten minutes, and you go
ce when I stopped for a light a man opened the door and when I told him I was making a delivery he almost climbed in anyway. Then I thought I would just leave the cab somewhere, anywhere, and I went to a phone booth to call Judy and tell her
kill her, but it doesn't follow that I swallow you whole. For instance, the divorce situation. If the fact i
the truth, every word. I lied to you out th
w good a friend of y
She's a little wild, but
sure she
Ye
ss your fingers."
y appreciate it, our minds should meet. D
ing hypothe
iss Nest would be driving the cab? Since Watson didn't show, taking h
een Impromptu. Or the embarrassment could have
"How close are Nelly Gr
frown was get
bt if Nelly has ever allowed any man to be intim
had any reason to
d lor
d got an idea that she would like to break the ice
t to say that anything is pos
ke it that whoever killed her knew that you were going to drive the
don't believe it. Nelly wo
ble that you told
. Twice. Two secon
time to be polite. You're
ld couldn't possibly have... have done
was
. Coupe,
my wallet, got up, and went to her. "Here's your fifty bu
ll you he
bite him. But I've got to know e
d again. "You wou
give
will. With regrets
of mine last eve- ning and told
ore than
and so am I. We're f
. They've known each other for yea
know Nora
her. He did
him about your plan
hat he thought of it. He is
d he thin
. He thought my husband would refuse to listen to me. Hon
he one-way glass panel of the front door. A man and a woman were there on the stoop. A glance was enough to recognize Inspector Darwin, but it took closer inspection for the woman
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