You — you opened his safe?’ Eve exclaimed, horrified. ‘Adam! How could you?’
‘Oh, shut up!’ he said impatiently. ‘If you’d been more helpful I needn’t have taken the risk. I told you we had to get something on Kile. Well, I’ve got it. I found Jean Bruce’s bracelet in the safe. That’d get him ten years in jail.’
Eve gripped the steering-wheel tightly.
‘How do you know it’s Jean Brace’s bracelet?’
‘My dear pet,’ Gil is said, and laughed. ‘Jean used to amuse herself with me when she felt she wanted to be a naughty girl, and I can tell you that was quite often. I’ve seen the bracelet a dozen times.’
Eve felt sick.
‘Oh! I didn’t know you knew her.’
‘There are lots of girls you don’t know I know,’ Gil is returned. ‘As a matter of fact, I’m damned sorry Jean’s dead. When she was in the mood, she could be vastly diverting.’
‘But the bracelet was stolen,’ Eve said, turning to stare at Gil is.
‘Watch the road, can’t you?’ he said sharply. ‘Of course it was stolen. The police are looking for it now. If Kile doesn’t play bal , I’m going to be one of those anonymous callers you read about in the papers and tip the police off he’s got the bracelet in his safe.’