“And when did you pay the money?”

“I paid that on the evening of Wednesday, the seventh, at a New York hotel.”

“How was it paid?”

“In cash.”

“Certified check or currency or...”

“Cash,” Waid said. “It was paid in one hundred bills of one thousand dollars each. That was the way Mrs. Sabin wanted it.”

“You have a receipt from her?” Mason asked.

“Yes, of course.”

“And how about the certified copy of the decree of divorce?”

“I have that.”