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"Are their files available?" Dundee asked.
"If they are, I don't know anything about it," the girl told him, and
turned to another seeker after bound volumes of the paper.
"It doesn't matter," Dundee assured her, and asked for a sheet of blank
paper, on which he quickly composed the following telegram, addressed to
Penny Crain:
"PLEASE SEARCH FILES ALL THREE HAMILTON PAPERS WEEK OF MAY FOURTH
TO ELEVENTH YEAR OF NINETEEN TWENTY TWO FOR STORY AND PICTURES ON
SUICIDE ANITA LEE ARTISTS MODEL STOP SAY NOTHING TO ANYONE NOT EVEN
SANDERSON IF HE IS THERE STOP WIRE RESULT"
In his hotel, while impatiently awaiting an answer from Penny, Dundee
passed the time by scanning all the New York papers of Thursday and
Friday, on the chance of meeting with significant revelations concerning
the private life of Dexter Sprague or Juanita Leigh Selim united by
death--in the press, at least. There was much space devoted to the
theory involving the two New Yorkers with the murder of the racketeer
and gambler, "Swallow-tail Sammy" Savelli, but only two pieces of
information held Dundee's interest.
The first was a reminder to the public that certain theatrical columns
of Sunday, February 9, had carried the rumor of Dexter Sprague's
engagement to Dolly Martin, popular "baby" star of Altamont Pictures,
and that the same columns of Tuesday, February 11, had carried Sprague's
own denial of the engagement--Dolly having "nothing to say.
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