“There’s a good gambling chance that I can. It’s the chance I have to take. It’s the only one I have.”
“How can you clear it up, Donald?”
I walked over to a chair and sat down. She hesitated a moment, then came over to sit down opposite me. “I like you,” she said. “I’m going to take a chance. That is, I think I’m going to take a chance, but I want you to start talking. I want the facts.”
I said, “I started out with Tom Durham. You wanted me to find out about him. You came to the office with a nice story about the reason you wanted him shadowed. That wasn’t the real story. You wanted him shadowed because Minerva Carlton wanted to find out about him.”
“I told you that.”
“How did Minerva know Durham was seeing your aunt?”
“I don’t know.”
I said, “I don’t think Tom Durham intended to marry your aunt.”
“He’d be foolish if he did.”
“And I don’t think he was trying to sell her any stock.”