"Judge Marshall had lent him a key in February, when Miles wanted to
show the house to an engaged young man in his offices, and Miles had
neglected to return it.... Well, when he arrived, he found Ralph Hammond
here, and had to leave, waiting at a safe distance, probably, until the
coast was clear about one o'clock. Even so, he had more than an hour to
do his carefully planned job.... _Nita had to die!_ Miles could not
continue to pay her large sums of money, since he was really only an
employe of Flora's. Everything he held dear in the world was threatened.
He loved Flora, he adored his children, and he could not give up the
luxury and social position which his bigamous marriage with Flora----"
"Why didn't he make a clean breast of the whole mess to Flora, since he
had not married her until he believed Nita Leigh was dead?" Sanderson
interrupted.
"You must remember that Flora was carrying on a violent flirtation with
Sprague--'vamping' him to get the lead in the Hamilton movie, if Sprague
got the job of directing it," Dundee reminded him. "Miles, victim of a
deep-rooted sexual inferiority complex, must have felt sure that Flora,
on discovering she was not legally married, would snatch at the chance
to marry Sprague--which was of course what Sprague had planned in case
Nita published the truth.
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