The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise by Philip Wylie

Author:Philip Wylie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781453202296
Publisher: Open Road Media

She got through to Hack Davis after long effort, since his switchboard was unusually lighted that night—or morning. Hack listened and his hardier listeners listened too. He had been skeptical at first of tales of “pirate treasure” on the pali near the park.

That view was modified when one of the tourists who had heard the Scopeses’ first astonishment and had seen the bill phoned in that much confirmation.

Some of the peripheral recipients of Hepzibah’s story then reconfirmed the lurid picture. The result became as certain as the then imminent sunrise. Before its manifestation, however, there was another happening.

Ever since the watchman had listened to Ring Grove’s reason for coming to Hawaii, Jerry had been extraordinarily alert. Twice more, somebody had slipped into the park and remained for a long time, undiscovered and doing nothing he could hear or see or find a trace of. But Jerry and Grove were aware of the time of each entry and exit.

Jerry’s mind was ready to accept anything novel though not, he had often thought, as novel as some things Ring Grove could produce—and suspect or look for. The finding of the hundred-dollar bill and the parts of a bracelet with the subsequent night’s scramble of people greedy enough to take the chance was something new. And as he made his rounds Jerry watched the twinkling searchers and listened to the shouts of police and the roar of cars on the Kalan. It seemed to him he knew something else that might bear on this singular, insane business.

When it came to mind, which was about when the last searchers quit, it came hard. Three nights before, while he’d been cycling the park, he’d thought he saw a light on the summit of the escarpment above the institute. It had not lasted long enough to be surely identified and he had waited in vain for a repeat, dismissing it in the end as a freak reflection of car headlights turning on some curve of a side road, on the other flank of the pali. He had also thought, and he now believed it had not been much afterward, that he’d heard a frail, high scream from the same general direction. But he’d decided it was a wakened gull, or a similar bird, many of which gave out just such sounds.

He now and abruptly realized that if he had seen a light which originated on the summit and heard not a bird but a human voice, it might explain what had been found on the talus. A human being, hurled from the ragged skyline, would probably scream; if female, she would possibly be wearing a bracelet and her pocketbook might be thrown after her to erase all trace of the point of her dispatch. In any case, she’d lose it if it went with her and it certainly would burst open and might contain a bill of that high denomination.

The idea set him on the task of calculating the point where he had half seen the

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