She became confused. “I don’t know,” she said. “I told you I’d taken so much dope, I…”
“I told you,” Susie Irwin said. “I heard it on the radio.”
“And how did you hear it on the radio?” I said. “Where was the announcer concealed? How did he know how I was kissed?”
“I guess the police made the announcement. I don’t know. Probably they had some witness.”
“That’s right,” Amelia Jasper said. “Susie told me.”
I settled back in the chair, and said, “That does it. I’ve been dumb.”
“What does what?” Sellers said, irritably. “And as far as being dumb is concerned, I’m the one that stuck my head into a noose.”
I said, “Don’t you get it now?”
“Get what?”
I said, “Durham was a blackmailer, all right, but he wasn’t the brains of the outfit, and he wasn’t blackmailing this woman. Get a doctor out here and take a look at that sciatic rheumatism of hers and you’ll find it’s caused by a .32-calibre bullet.”