"Yes," the other returned absent-mindedly; "why didn't he?"
CHAPTER VI
MORLEY IS IN A HURRY
Bristow looked at his watch. It was nearly half-past two o'clock.
"Hear anything about Perry?" he asked.
"Yes," Greenleaf informed him. "My man found him. They've got him down at headquarters. I phoned from Number Five and got this. He'd been drinking. I gather that he's about half-drunk now."
"Good! If he'll talk at all, it will be easier for you to get the truth out of him that way than if he were cold sober. Suppose you see him and Douglas Campbell; and later on this afternoon you and I can talk to Miss Fulton and her father."
"Her father won't be here today. He wired that a little while ago. He'll get here early in the morning."
"Very well. It's of no consequence just now. Come back here for me at four, will you?"