Moreover, if Nita had secured either a divorce or a legal
separation, her "faithful and beloved maid," Lydia Carr, would certainly
have known of it. And Lydia had vehemently protested more than once to
Bonnie Dundee that she knew nothing of Nita's husband, although she had
worked for the musical comedy dancer for five years. Surely if Nita,
loving and trusting Lydia as she did, had entered into negotiations of
any kind with or concerning her husband during the last year, her maid
would have been the first to know of them. And yet----
Suddenly Dundee jumped to his feet and began to pace the floor of his
hotel bedroom. He was remembering the belated confidence that John C.
Drake, banker, had made to him the morning before--after the discovery
of Dexter Sprague's murder. He recalled Drake's reluctant statement
almost word for word:
"About that $10,000 which Nita deposited with our bank, Dundee.... When
she made the first deposit of $5,000 on April 28, she explained it with
an embarrassed laugh as 'back alimony', an instalment of which she had
succeeded in collecting from her former husband. And, naturally, when
she made the second deposit on May 5, I presumed the same explanation
covered that sum, too, though I confess I was puzzled by the fact that
both big deposits had been made in cash.
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