Since Nita would have had no earthly reason for carefully
wiping off her fingerprints after she removed the papers she burned on
Friday night, it's a dead sure fact that someone else who had no
legitimate business to do so, touched that pivoting panel and the shelf,
and carefully removed all traces that he had done so!... And--" he
continued grimly, "until I find out who that someone is, I, for one,
won't consider the case solved!"
Fifteen minutes later Dundee was sitting at Penny Crain's desk in her
office of the district attorney's suite, replacing the receiver upon the
telephone hook, after having put in a call for Sanderson, who was still
in Chicago, keeping vigil at the bedside of his dying mother.
"Did you find out anything new when you questioned the crowd this
morning?" Penny asked. "Besides the fact that Polly and Clive got
married this morning, I mean.... I wasn't surprised when I read about
the wedding in the extra. It was exactly like Polly to make up her mind
suddenly, after putting Clive off for a year----"
"So it was Polly who held back," Dundee said to himself. Aloud: "No, I
didn't learn much new, Penny. You're a most excellent and accurate
reporter.... But there were one or two things that came out. For
instance, I got Drake to admit to me, in private, that Nita did give him
an explanation as to where she got the $10,000.
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