Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-11

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Luckily she showed no more
interest Her hands clasped to-
-ether i'm q gesture Of reverence.
she crovcd, They're an Of them
girl scouts, Daddy"
Presumably she was referring
o. the fish But II was a topic
of. conversation which had no
future s tore >her away down.
stairs and together we ate Re
bccca's lamb chops
she was back with the fish
again when Cobb arrived
The Inspector looked calm and
scda,e His unrufned composure
rather exaspcrated me after the
many discomposing things l had
endured that afternoon for his
sake.
A S HE settled himself into n
n chair. ne said Wen got
your message and l came as soon
as ] could. Has anything turned
up
Turned up on I echoed with a
ero4u. Things have been eX-
ploUug an over the valley"
Rather Historically, l poured
ont 90 HIM a detailed account Of
the many events that had taken
place ranging from my talk with
Persis Rowley through the stag
Ceung temperance of the taxi
driver 10 our final, wild chase for
Karen mp the snowy mountain TO
the sap-housC.
80 you see" I concluded,
we're back where we started
from with the story Norma hand
ed me The taxi driver does
exist. very definitely, and if it
hadn't been for the sheerest tuck
Karen would have gone the way
of the other two redheads."
Through my long monologue
- CehA- had been watching me with
4 sort OF massive alertness which
! found very stabilizing When
| was through he leaned for
ward
"This makes me into pretty
much of a dope, Westlake. Here
I've been jogging along with the
routine end and l almost got a
second murder on my hands.
Would have got it if it hadn't
been for you" He grinned slyly
You make a dandy man of
action, Westlake"
Which implied, of course, that
! was not so hot as a theorist
l could hardly deny it.
Cobb's face was very serious
again. Il guess you're right" he
unused. We've both been too
fancy, chasing after the Will
angle and throwing out the taxi
driver because ne seemed too
obvious. From now on we'd better
stick 10 the facts DO you have
the note he wrote for Karen 2"
| felt in my pocket and handed
him the folded white note order
ing Karen 20 meet the writer and
ending with It's no use trying
any funny business come" He
read it aloud then he paused
And she went Westlake. if
we 20 back TO Libby Brompton's
letter it all seems pretty straight
forward doesn't it? Libby,
Norma. Karen and possibly
young Saltcr gangcd mp together
and committed some sort of a
crime that involved the taxi
driver Heaven knows what it
was but it must have affected
the taxi driver baily enough for
him TO have nursod his revenge
AN this time.
He figured out this crazy
scheme of bounding them each in
turn with the yellow taxi and
then picked them off one by one.
Jimmie Saltcr, first, if Jimmie
was murdered Then Libby, then
Norma and now tonight,
Karen"
lie took his pipe and pushed
il rcflcctively between his teeth
It's just about as fantastic a
sort of set-up as you could hope
TO see But l guess we've just
plain got TO accept it,"
l suppose l agreed with him.
That The Shipton grandchildren
and Libby could have done some
thing bad enough TO a New York
taxi driver TO start him off mur-
ieuHg them wholesale did seem
almost nonseusical But there
Tc We're 1t seemed to be the
story and we were stuck with