.. Yes, Penny! You're
right! That's all--so far as Hamilton is concerned! If Sanderson won't
let me go to New York--which is where this damned business started--I'll
resign and go on my own, without wasting another day here!"
But Dundee did not go to New York the next morning. He was far too busy
in Hamilton....
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
"Hello, Penny!" Dundee greeted the district attorney's private secretary
Thursday morning at five minutes after nine. "Any news from Sanderson?"
"Yes," Penny Crain answered listlessly. "A night letter. He says his
mother is still very low and that we're to wire him at the Good
Samaritan Hospital in Chicago if anything turns up."
"Then I suppose I can reach him there by long distance," and Dundee
lifted the telephone from Penny's desk to put in the call.
"What's happened?" Penny demanded, her brown eyes wide and startled.
"And hurry it up, will you, please?" Dundee urged the long distance
operator before hanging up the receiver and answering Penny's question.
"That's just the trouble--nothing's happened, and nothing is very likely
to happen here. I'm determined to go to New York and work on this pesky
case from that end--"
"Then you've come around to Captain Strawn's theory that it was a New
York gunman?" Penny asked hopefully.
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