“What happened?”
“He’s dead. I got word with him. He said Lu Spencer had pulled it.”
I heard her catch her breath. “He said that?” she asked eagerly.
“Yeah… now listen, what’s the big idea? What’s all this to you?”
“I’m goin’ to send you five thousand dollars so that you can go on with this. When you’ve found out the truth and have written it all up you’ll get the other five.”
I was scared that she was going to cut off. I said quickly, “I ain’t interested… I’ve looked into this an’ there’s too much to it.”
There was a long silence on the line.
J said anxiously, “You there?”
She said, “Yes… I thought you’d be glad to do it. I see I’ve made a mistake.”
“Suppose we get together an’ talk this over?” I said. “This is a big set-up, baby. All the big shots are in on this… it wants talkin’ over.”