The Case of the Irate Witness and Other Stories by Erle Stanley Gardner

Author:Erle Stanley Gardner
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: mystery, courtroom, SSC
ISBN: 8186734910
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1973-09-02T07:00:00+00:00

Sergeant Ackley looked up. “Now what,” he asked, “do you make of that?”

“Nothing,” Captain Carmichael said.

“That’s the way I feel about it, but he told Beaver the letter wasn’t to be mailed until tomorrow, so Beaver thought I might want to know about it today.”

“What’s the manuscript?” Carmichael asked.

“A bunch of tripe,” Ackley said.

“Did you read it?”

“Oh, I glanced through it.”

Captain Carmichael reached for the manuscript. “This is a carbon copy?”

“Uh-huh.”

“How come?”

“He isn’t going to mail this letter until tomorrow, you see, and he has the original story with him.”

Captain Carmichael frowningly regarded the carbon copy. “He must have some reason for sending it to you.”

“Just wants to give me the old razzberry.”

Captain Carmichael frowned at the end of his cigar. “Don’t be too certain, Sergeant. You know Leith may have intended to grab off the swag and then give you a tip to the crook.”

“Why should he do that?”

“Well, you know this crime is a little different from the other crimes we’ve worked on. This is getting pretty close to treason, and I don’t think Leith would care very much about shielding a traitor.”

“All he cares about is getting the swag.”

“And you’ve read through this?” Carmichael asked.

Sergeant Ackley fished a cigar from his waistcoat pocket and nodded.

Carmichael turned rapidly through the pages. Suddenly he said, “Wait a minute. What’s this?”

“Where?” Ackley asked.

“On page five,” Carmichael said. “Listen to this:

“It isn’t every place that would be suitable as a hiding place for a set of blueprints. It would take a long, hollow tube, and such a tube would be hard to conceal.”

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