“Why?”
“For one thing, she told me so. For another thing, it wasn’t the sort of letter she’d have written to a woman in Corla Burke’s position. Someone must have written that letter — and it was someone who was close to Helen Framley.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because he told Corla to send the reply to Helen Framley at General Delivery.”
“Why not send it to her at her apartment?”
“Because Helen Framley wasn’t to get it. When she first went to Las Vegas, she’d been getting mail at General Delivery. Jannix had been picking it up occasionally, and probably held her written authorization to deliver any mail addressed to her.”
“I get you now,” Bertha said.
“The post-office authorities were too obliging. That was something the conspirators hadn’t anticipated.”
“I see, I see,” Bertha said. “Go on from there. They delivered the letter directly to Helen Framley. It didn’t make sense to her. But why did Jannix get killed?”
“Because Jannix was in on it, but he didn’t think it up by himself. Someone was back of him, someone who wanted—”