Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

Including this taxi driver with
the beady eyes and the crooked
upper lip"
Particularly the taxi driver.
He was the one they were really
scared of Libby Brompton went
all queer inside whenever she saw
"A yellow car Norma Hale was
haunted night and day by visions
sf that yellow taxi creeping after
her All their fear seemed TO
center around him. And then
---He- day in Bar Hafbor- this suIT1=
mer the yellow taxi caught up
with Libby. The next morning
she was found dead. This evening
Norma Hale saw the taxi here in
Kenmore She came 10 me for
sleeping pills Why? Because
she was planning suicide? In any
case. by this evening. she was
dead. too"
Cobb had taken out his pipe
and was chewing on it reflective
~. Couldn't have been very
fond of them. that taxi driver.
What dyou think they did to
him? Left him TO take the rap
for something they'd done?"
Maybe"
And Toni" Cobb unused.
Spelled with an i, wasn't it?
Could be a girl or a boy then.
Most likely another girl If
there's any logic in this thing
Westlake. Toni should be next on
he-list~a f-eeFPses ,,--
I'd thought of that, of course.
Wed better find Toni, West
lake. For her or his own sake
And for our sake too. Toni
should be able 10 tell us the
whole story Anyone in the
Fallowheld set-up called that ?"
NO The sisters called Karen
The mother Persis The step
father David. The fiance Oliver.
The Judge and his wife John and
Grace"
mo Toni" Cobb said We'll
maybe Wen get a slant on Toni
through the Bromoton affair. I'm
getting in touch with the Bar
Harbor police Going 10 have
them resurrect that case, see If
they can dig up anything new on
IL He took a sip Of his high
ball. Queer business. Westlake
4 couple of young college girls,
good family, wealthy everything
getting into a jam like that
Queer is putting it mildly" /
said
uKNOW anything about the
" family. Westlake ?"
"Only what picked up this
morning They're from New
York presumably Rowley's a
second husband. Lot OF charm.
So has his wife didn't see
enough Of the fiance to get a slant
on him But Mrs Salter struck
me as pretty much Of an old sour
puss and the Judge has been in a
sort Of nervous decline ever since
his son died.
And the twin sister ?"
Karen ?" l remembered the
girls white, anxious face, so fan
tastically like her sisters. Come
to think of il. she did act a bit
odd She kept on saying over
and over again: OF course, il
was an accident although I'd
given absolutely no sign of
thinking it was anything else"
Cobb grunted. you don't know
any facts? What sort of bust
ness Rowley's in. What sort of
position they have in New York "
Search me. | don't have time
to look up my neighbors in the
Social Register"
Social Register" Cobb's face
lit up with slow. amused smile
Here's the first time in my life
that | might be able 10 get some
help from my wife's sister She :
quite a girl, Westlake. Literary
and all that. Writes the society
column for the Grovestown Times
and is always coming over to
gossip with nay wife about who
is who and why is why She'll
know. Mind If | phone herr"
AS freshened up the drinks, !
could hear Cobb chuckling into
the telephone. He was still
chuckling when he returned.