The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-14
MR.: MUIR
AK
by George
Harmon
Coke

what she had to do and was walk
ing resolutely towards him.
"By the way, Lieutenant. Are
you still holding that man Rae
burn?"
EYES," Bacon said, but / don't
know for how long. We haven't
cracked him and his lawyer must
have influence. Some pressure
came down the line to the D.A.
from Washington. If we don't get
something soon We'll have to let
him 60"
He had burned to face her.
hleaning back on the desk, his
hands braeed at his sides. She
stood quite close to him, trying
to edge around him, talking, not
knowing exactly what she said.
Presently she made her smile a
little more winning and ap-
preached the problem directly.
Gould | see that ease?" Per-
haps / may have"
Il doubt it," Bacon said. He
was smiling too, but there was
a queer look in his gray eyes. Il
don't think you're even seen it
before"
A ,plain-elothes man appeared
beside her and she realized that
Bacon had pressed the buzzer.
you can have this now,
Massey" he said, stepping so close
to Joyce that she had to move
back. "She can't identify it."
Joyce saw the n-clothes
man reach for the case. When
he started out she saw he was
holding it the same way Bacon
had.
Then he was gone and she was
walking to where Thorndike and
Della waited, drawing on her
gloves so that they would not see
the fear in her eyes. Even in the
hall she kept her face averted
lest it should reveal her feelings.
IDelia's fingerprints were on that
case-and very soon now those
prints would be compared with
those on the glass from which
Della had slipped her drink in
Perry Clarke's apartment.
Maybe He Did
.nEAN THORNDIKE handed
- them into his car and drove
slowly down Berkeley Street.
easing to a stop in front of the
traffic light.
Well go down to the office"
he said. land I'll call Arnold
Gage. He's the best lawyer in
town for this sort of thing"
II think Della would rather 60
home" Joyce said.
Yes. please" Della said. For
a little while"
Thorndike started to speak,
checked himself when he looked
down at the girl at his side. The
light changed and he shifted
gears, continuing straight across.
"All right, I'll drop you off. You
do look done in."
She was staring straight ahead,
look of blank dependency in
her, eyes
why did 1 do that?" There was
a catch N her voice but she
quickly controlled it. 81 wanted
so to 'et him know il didn't mat
ter, to do something to help him.
| didn't mean to De such a nasty
little beast but sn." ...-..
"Of course you didn't" Joyce
said.
II couldn't stand it. He just sat
there as if nothing could possibly
matter to him any more, as if he
didn't even want us around"
He didn't expect u.s." Joyce
said. HE came in prepared to put
up a good front and not let the
lieutenant rattle him, and he
didn't dare let down."
YES" Della said. "And how
perfectly awful it must be for
him"
"Just the same" Thorndike
said, II think he's taking the
wrong attitude. That taxi driver
could be mistaken but it does
look as though Ward was out and
around about that time. Why
shouldn't he explain his move
ments? I don't know, Dee, I think
he's hiding something"
There was more silence and
then Thorndike spoke again.
81 don't like to say it, but
there's one thing we ought to
consider. Maybe he did kill
Clarke"
To be continued