I'll stop at the bank now and get the money."
They rose and Mary preceded her, eager to get away from the house.
At the door, however, Elaine asked her to wait while she ran back
on some pretext. In the library she took off the receiver of the
telephone and quickly called a number.
Our telephone rang in the middle of our conversation on blood
crystals and Kennedy himself answered it.
It was Elaine asking Craig's advice.
"They have offered to hush the thing up for ten thousand dollars,"
she said, in a muffled voice.
She seemed bent on doing it and no amount of argument from him
could stop her. She simply refused to accept the evidence of the
blood crystals as better than what her own eyes told her she had
seen and done.
"Then wait for half an hour," he answered, without arguing
further. "You can do that without exciting suspicion. Go with her
to her hotel and hand her over the money."
"All right--I'll do it," she agreed.
"What is the hotel?"
Craig wrote on a slip of paper what she told him--"Room 509, Hotel
La Coste."
"Good--I'm glad you called me. Count on me," he finished as he
hung up the receiver.
Hastily he threw on his street coat. "Go into the back room and
get me that brace and bit, Walter," he asked.
I did so. When I returned, I saw that he had placed the
detectascope and some other stuff in a bag.
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