He motioned to me for a pad and pencil that lay near me.
"Please read the letter again, slower, Miss Dodge," he asked, adding,
"There isn't time for me to see it—just yet. But I want it exactly.
You say it is made up of separate words and type cut from newspapers
and pasted on note paper?"
I handed him paper and pencil.
"All right now, Miss Dodge, go ahead."
As he wrote, he indicated to me by his eyes that he wanted me to read.
I did so:
"Sturtevant Martin, Jeweler, "739 1/2 Fifth Ave., "New York City.
"SIR:
"As you have failed to deliver the $10,000, I shall rob your main diamond case at exactly noon today."
"Thank you, Miss Dodge," continued Kennedy, laying down the pencil. "Yes, I understand perfectly—signed by that same Clutching Hand. Let me see," he pondered, looking at his watch. "It is now just about half past eleven. Very well. I shall meet you and Miss Martin at Mr. Martin's store directly."
It lacked five minutes of noon when Kennedy and I dashed up before
Martin's and dismissed our taxi-cab.