Henry Gamadge 03 Murders in Volume 2 by Elizabeth Daly

Author:Elizabeth Daly [Daly, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781937384197
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Gamadge pocketed the letter, and went on with his dinner. When he had reached the coffee, he said: “All right, Harold. It seems I’m still on the case. I think I’m going to need you, from now on. Listen, while I tell you a fairy tale.”

Harold listened in silence. There was a pause while Theodore cleared away, and then, while Gamadge smoked, his assistant pondered. When he spoke he surprised his employer:

“This Dykinck bird.”

“What about her?”

“She probably told him this noon that you took those letters and those books. He knows that you know he took the missing letter, and that second volume.”

“What of it?”

“What of it? She’ll connect him with this murder, unless she’s loony; even if she is loony, she’ll connect him with it when and if those people tell the police the arbor story.”

“She’d connive at ten murders before she told her story. Do you think she’d allow those girls in her sewing circle to know that she let X in by the area gate? I honestly believe she’d die first.”

“He can’t bank on that. He won’t take a chance on it. He’ll go there, and he’ll—X is no sissy.”

“He can’t get into the place without making an appointment with her—he can’t even get into communication with her.”

“She may have made the appointment with him when she telephoned him today.”

“He won’t go near her now; not on your life! He can’t risk it, with me in the know. It would sink him to be seen there.”

“He’ll risk it, all right. You got her into this—”

“I like that. She got herself into it. Here I am, in the worst jam I ever was in since I was born, and you talk to me about Miss Dykinck. I kept poor Miss Vauregard at the telephone when she was hardly able to talk or listen, telling her to keep the Dykincks out of it. If she remembers to, she’s an even better sport than I thought she was. Miss Dykinck!”

“She’s the one that’s in the jam. He may go around there this evening—”

“Talk sense. Time enough to worry about her when and if the Wagoneur story gets into the news. It never may.”

“Who is this X, anyhow? Duncannon, or young Vauregard, or Payne?” He paused, and added: “Or Bridge, or Chandor, or somebody else?”

“Payne? Payne?”

“Miss Dykinck likes him, and he’s engaged to one of the Vauregard heirs.”

“And he’s a lame man who walks with a stick.”

“Seems to get around, though. They left before five. She could have driven him down there in twenty minutes. She could have waited around, and driven him back.”

“Have you ever seen Miss Dawson?”

“Yes, but you always told me never to go by what people look like.”

“If I did, it’s the only time I ever generalized in my life, and I take it back. Would you mind telephoning the Morton house for me? If a cop answers, say you want Butterfield, not Rhinelander. If somebody else does, say Mr. Gamadge will call on Miss Vauregard at half past ten o’clock tomorrow morning.

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