“Ba? There’s Julie Baxter, the telephone girl.”
“He’d hardly speak of her as Baxter.”
“But,—oh, I say, Gibbs, Moore testifies that, as the man died, he tried to say something and it sounded like ‘Get J—J——’ some name beginning with J!”
“Hello! We must inquire as to the fair Julie. Any one else?”
“No; no women, that I know of. Young Bates, the heir, begins his name with Ba, but he’s not a woman.”
“Have you looked up his record for last evening? What was he doing?”
“No, I haven’t. A man can’t do everything at once!”
“This thing seems to have a dozen different handles. First of all, I think we want to see the family.
“But he hadn’t any family.”
“Well, relatives, connections, anybody most interested. Especially the heir.”