Chapter IV
TULLY’S CHALLENGE
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Tully Ross followed Bob into the elevator and they dropped toward the first floor.
“I guess we’re taking the same train as far as Jacksonville,” said Tully. “What a pleasure that’s going to be!”
Tully’s last words were sneering and vindictive, and a little of Bob’s pent-up resentment burst out. Fortunately no one else was in the elevator at the time.
“You’d better take inventory of yourself, Tully,” advised Bob, “or you’re going to run head-on into trouble. I haven’t got it in for you and you can take full credit for anything that you do. Don’t be so blamed suspicious of everything. You do your work and I’ll do mine. The main thing is going to be to solve this case and I don’t care who does it just as long as we are successful. If you’d only warm up a little we could go over this case on the way south this afternoon and we might have some ideas that we could both benefit by.”
Tully looked suspicious.
“What are you getting at?” he asked.
They were on the main floor again and passengers bound for the upper floors swept into the elevator.
“We’ll take a taxi together to the station and I’ll tell you on the way there,” said Bob.
Tully had two smaller bags while Bob had only the large gladstone and they loaded the bags and themselves into a taxi and started for the union station.