“Have a guess,” Adams said quietly.
Sweeting again hesitated.
“If I were you,” he said slowly, “I’d talk to Maurice Yarde. He might have a few ideas.”
“Who’s he?”
“He used to be Fay’s dancing partner before they quarrelled.”
“What did they quarrel about?”
“She and Gilda Dorman used to share an apartment. Yarde fell for Gilda. He broke up the act and Gilda and he went to Los Angeles. She came back after six months alone. Yarde came back a couple of days ago. He came to see Fay. I happened to see him. They had a quarrel. I heard her cursing him. When he left I heard him tell her he would cut her throat.”
Adams removed his hat and ran his fingers through his thick white hair.
“You’re sure Gilda went away with Yarde?”
Sweeting nodded.