“I’ve seen it somewhere,” Della Street said, “but I can’t place it. It may come to me later.”
Drake said, “I have a bunch of news, Perry.”
“Good or bad?”
“Mostly bad,” Drake said.
“Go ahead,” Mason told him. “Spill it.”
“There’s another witness against your client, Perry.”
“Who is it?”
“I don’t know yet. The D.A. doesn’t know, either, but he’s hot on the trail. You see, the alarm of ‘Man Overboard’ wasn’t given by the Fell woman. She screamed and let it go at that, but some woman telephoned the operator from the social hall and told her to notify the bridge. That woman must have seen the man go overboard because she said to tell the bridge a man had been pushed overboard. The telephone operator says she’ll recognize the voice if she hears it again, and thinks she can place it. She’s going over the passenger list.”
Mason grinned and said, “I’m not particularly worried about that witness, Paul.”
“Why not?”