He nodded to Phyllis Leeds and said, “Simply for my own satisfaction, I’d be glad to know if you find your uncle at home. The deputy sheriff will drive you there at once.”
Chapter 5
Perry Mason, with Della Street at his side, drove rapidly toward the city.
“What happened in the sanitarium?” Della asked. “Everyone came out in a hurry, and they hustled Phyllis Leeds off in the sheriff’s car.”
Mason sketched the highlights of what had taken place.
“What’ll happen next?” Della Street asked.
“We’ll go to the office,” he said. “Phyllis Leeds will probably telephone us that her uncle is at home. The court will want him brought in when the habeas corpus hearing is reopened. That’ll be all there is to it.”
“Where will that leave us?” Della asked.
“All finished,” Mason said, “unless Leeds wants us to do something about that twenty thousand dollar check.”
“Do you think he will?”