The bride wore black by Cornell Woolrich

Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books
Published: 1984-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

on, to be let in here like that, it might help some "

"One of the neighbors?" suggested the matron.

"We've canvassed every one of them for six blocks in all directions. Cookie, what did Miss Baker say to your daddy when he first opened the door and let her in?"

"She said hullo," he faltered tentatively, evidently doing his conscientious best to fulfil what was required of him.

''That's going to start in again," sighed the matron resignedly.

Wanger glanced around in the direction of the stairs. "I wonder if she'd be any help Ask the doctor if she's in condition to come down for just a minute. Tell him I don't want to question her, y'understand, I just want to see if she can throw some light on a point the kid brought up. I won't keep her a minute."

"Don't take any lead pipe to the kid while I'm out of the room now," the matron warned. "I'm supposed to be in attendance the whole time he's with you."

She returned in a couple of minutes. "They didn't want her to, but she did want to. Shell be right down."

The doctor and a nurse both came in with her. She walked very slowly. The murder hadn't been in the closet out there; it was in here on her face.

"Now, please " the doctor urged Wanger.

"I promise you," Wanger assured him.

She was a mother. She was half-dead herself, but she was still a mother. "You're not tiring him too much, are you, officer?" She tottered over to the two of them, bent forward and kissed the youngster. The doctor and the nurse held her up, each by an arm.

Wanger almost didn't have the heart to go ahead. But, after all, it had to be done sooner or later. "Mrs. Moran, I don't suppose there's a Miss Baker that you happen to know of. . . . I'm trying to find out if there really is such a

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