“I know that already,” Mason interrupted.
“No, you don’t,” Drake said, “because Cartman came over to the Mainland six weeks ago.”
“He did what!” Mason asked, staring at the detective.
“Came over to the Mainland six weeks ago, and he came over on a clipper plane.”
“Then why did he go back to Honolulu?” Mason asked.
“He swears he didn’t,” Drake said.
“You’ve talked with him?”
“My operative located him in a private sanitarium. He says he’s been in the sanitarium ever since he arrived, and, what’s more, the nurses and doctors all swear he has.”
“Then this wasn’t the real Cartman that Evelyn Whiting brought over?”
“No.”