“That’s right.”
Mason’s face showed his interest. “And,” the girl in the pearl-gray suit went on quickly, “I don’t think Rossy knows how Jimmy feels toward me. You see, we never mention his name. But I have some money of my own, and, after Rossy’s marriage, Jimmy kept right on handling my investments, and I went out with him quite a bit.”
“And your sister knows nothing of this?”
“No — at any rate, I don’t think so.”
“What’s Prescott going to do about the letter?” Mason asked.
“He’s going to sue Rossy for divorce, claiming that she’s kept up her old affair with Jimmy. And he’s going to sue Jimmy for alienation of affections because he put in the letter about Walter’s marrying her for her money and told her she’d better leave him.”
Mason shook his head. “I don’t handle divorce cases.”
“Oh, but you must handle this. I haven’t told you everything yet.”
Mason glanced quizzically across at Della Street, smiled and said, “Well, then, suppose you tell me everything.”
“Walter got about twelve thousand dollars from Rossy.He said he was going to invest it in his business and she’d get better than ten percent on her money, and the investment would increase in value. Now he swears he never received a cent from her.”