Sergeant Sellers said, “I am just wondering, Mrs. Cool, if that collect telephone call you received this afternoon didn’t come from Redlands.”
“It certainly did not,” Bertha assured him.
“You’ll pardon me if I make a little investigation of that.”
“Go ahead. Investigate all you want to.”
“I don’t think you understand me, Mrs. Cool. During the investigation I am going to make, it’s going to be necessary for me to have you where I can find you.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean exactly what I say.”
“You mean you’re going to put me under surveillance?”
“Oh, that would be an unnecessary expense to the city, Mrs. Cool. I wouldn’t think of doing anything like that. And besides, it would inconvenience you so much.”
“Well, what do you mean then?”