open the doors. An' sure enough, there's a coupe with its engine still hot. It ain't been in long. Also it's the
same kind of coupe the lad who's seen the gal says she was driving.
"I lock the place up again, an' go back to the boys. I watch with 'em the rest of the night. Not a light in
the doll joint. But nigh eight o'clock, the gal shows up inside the shop and opens up!"
"Still," I said at this point, "you have no real evidence she had been out. The girl your man thought he saw
might not have been she at all."
He looked at me pityingly.
"She got out in the afternoon without 'em seeing her, didn't she? What's to keep her from doing the same
thing at night? The lad saw her driving a coupe, didn't he? An' we find a coupe like it close where the
wench dropped out of sight."