"
"Yes?" Penny prompted eagerly.
"Drake says," Dundee answered dryly, "that Nita told him it was 'back
alimony' which she had succeeded in collecting from her former husband.
Unfortunately, she did not say who or where the mysterious husband is."
"Pooh!" scoffed Penny. "Don't you see? She just said that to satisfy
Johnny's curiosity. After all, it was the most plausible explanation of
how a divorcee got hold of a lot of money."
"So plausible that Drake may have thought of it himself," Dundee
reflected silently. Aloud, he continued his report to the girl who had
been of so much help to him: "Among other minor things that came out
this morning, and which the papers did not report, was the fact that
Janet Raymond tried to commit suicide this morning by drinking shoe
polish. Fortunately her father discovered what she had done almost as
soon as she had swallowed the stuff, and made her take ipecac and then
sent for the doctor."
"Oh, poor Janet!" Penny groaned. "She must have been terribly in love
with Dexter Sprague, though what she saw in him----"
Dundee made no comment, but continued with his information: "Another
minor development was that Tracey Miles admitted that he and Flora had
quarreled over Sprague after all of you left, and that Flora took two
sleeping tablets to make sure of a night's rest.
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