“You didn’t kill any one?”
The dive-keeper grinned.
“I guess if I did you wouldn’t find me here,” he said.
The affair at the “fence” on Elizabeth Street had not as yet reached the police.
“Now,” said Burt, “you must put me in the way of finding Cook.”
“I have not seen him since you and I had the run-in.”
“Don’t lie.”
“I’m giving it to you straight.”
“By the way, do you know his partner?” asked Burt.
“You mean Kidd?”