... Well, I figure he laid his hat on
this cabinet, intending to reach in for it when he was outside, but that
he had already made some little noise which the gunman was listening
for, and that when he got the screen up this high, the gunman, crouching
under the window, let go with the same gun and silencer that he used to
bump off Nita.... I've got Miles' word for it that neither he nor
anybody else heard a shot.... Of course, nobody knew Sprague was in
here, and since his hat and stick was both missing from the hall closet,
they took it for granted he'd beat it.... Any objections to that theory,
boy?"
"Just a few--one in particular," Dundee said. "But I grant it's a good
one, provided Dr. Price's autopsy bears you out as to the course of the
bullet, and that Carraway finds Sprague's fingerprints on that
contrivance for raising the screen. Even then----"
But Dundee was not allowed to finish his sentence, for Strawn was
summoned to the telephone, by Whitson. When he returned there was a
slightly bewildered look on his heavy old face.
"That's funny.... Collins--the lad I sent to check up on the taxi
companies--says he's located the driver that answered Sprague's call
last night. The driver says he was called about 9:15, told to come
immediately, and to wait for Sprague at the foot of the hill, on the
main road.
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