“That’s right, yes. I’d never thought of that.”
I said, “Perhaps all they wanted was to bring pressure on her.”
“There’s something to that,” Pellingham said. A lot of it isn’t clear as yet-little details. There are some angles on this, however, that I think you could clear it up.
“Such as what?”
“Giving me a hint on which I could work on Nostrander’s murder. Did Hale do that?”
I looked at my watch. It was five minutes to one. “I’ll tell you something,” I said, as we waited for a signal to change. “Bertha Cool and I were the first ones to find that body.”
“What!” he exclaimed in surprise.
Bertha said sharply, “Donald!”
I said, “It’s all right. They can’t touch us. We reported it. I’m the one who telephoned the police.”
“Let’s have the rest of it,” Pellingham said as we moved forward with the changing signal.