Under His Spell by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Chapter

Nine

THE VOICE HAD BEEN distorted, but both of them recognized the caller. The speech pattern, the gruff tone, were unmistakable. “Eddie Hill!” Nancy and the captain said at the same moment.

There was a knock at the door, and an officer entered, looking excited. “We’ve traced the call, Captain,” the officer said. “It came from the pay phone at Eddie Hill’s corner.”

Captain Krane hit the desk with his fist. “I want him brought in right now!”

Nancy sat there, trying to make sense of it all. If Eddie Hill was the culprit, had he dropped the earring behind Tommy’s house just to throw suspicion on someone else? It made sense, she thought, relieved that, for the moment at least, Tommy Rio seemed to be off the hook. Unless, of course, strange as it might seem, he and Eddie were working together.

Fifteen minutes later Eddie Hill was shown in, in handcuffs and accompanied by two burly sergeants.

“You’re harassing me, Krane,” he growled. Then he noticed Nancy. “I seen you before. So you’re a cop, too, huh? I knew it.”

“Shut up, Eddie,” Captain Krane ordered. “I want my daughter, and I want her now. Where is she?”

Hill sneered. “I want a lawyer, and I want him now,” he shot back. “This is police brutality. Typical, Krane.”

Nancy saw that the captain was close to hauling off and socking Eddie in the jaw. But Eddie didn’t back off. He seemed to be enjoying Krane’s discomfort.

“I’m glad you’re hurting, Krane,” he said. “You’re suffering now the way I suffered all those years because of you. But guess what? I had nothing to do with any of this. I read it in the papers like everybody else. It gave me a warm feeling right here.” He looked down at his chest.

“Get this jerk a lawyer,” Krane barked, and one of the officers left the room. “You’re going to rot in jail, Eddie, if you don’t come clean. I’m not letting you out of here until you talk.”

“I got nothing to say,” Hill retorted. “I’m as innocent as a rose, okay? You can talk to my lawyer, whoever he is.” Still handcuffed, he sat down on a straight-backed wooden chair across from the desk.

This is going nowhere, Nancy thought. She looked up at the office clock and saw that it was now almost three in the morning. All of a sudden a wave of sleepiness washed over her, and she yawned.

“Nancy,” Captain Krane said, noticing, “why don’t you go on home and get some sleep? I’ll call you in the morning.”

“What about you, Captain Krane?” Nancy asked, concerned. He’d gotten even less sleep than she had the past couple of days.

“I’ll be all right,” he told her. “I have to be, for Sharon’s sake. You go on ahead. Have someone walk you to your car.”

“It’s right outside,” Nancy told him as she walked toward the door. “I’ll be fine. Good luck,” she added, with a glance at Eddie Hill.

Nancy got into her car and headed down the deserted avenue.

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