A smaller envelope held Nita's tell-tale checkbook, her
amazing last will and testament, and the still more startling note she
had written to Lydia Carr. The last two Dundee had retrieved from
Carraway only this morning, after having submitted them to the
fingerprint expert on Sunday.
Carraway's report had rather dashed him at first, for it proved that no
other hands than Nita's--and his own, of course--had touched either
envelope or contents. But he was content now to believe that Nita
herself had unsealed the envelope she had inscribed, "To Be Opened in
Case of My Death".... Why?... Had she been moved by an impulse to give a
clue to the identity of the person of whom she stood in fear, but had
stifled the impulse?
Strawn had said, too, that the little rosewood desk had been in a fairly
orderly condition, before his big, official hands had clawed through it
in search of a clue or the gun itself.... Well, Strawn had been properly
chagrined when Dundee had produced the will and note....
"Why did she stick it away in a pack of new envelopes, if she wanted it
to be found?" Strawn had demanded irritably, and had not been appeased
by Dundee's suggestion: "Because she did not want Lydia, in dusting the
desk, to see it and be alarmed.
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