'What's the matter, boss, you got a pain?' He don't answer me, an' then he sort of falls against me an' I
see his eyes is wide open. He looks dead to me. So I yelps to Paul to stop the car and we both look him
over. Then we beat it here like hell."
I went to a cabinet and poured them stiff drinks of brandy. They needed it. I threw a sheet over Ricori.
"Sit down," I said, "and you, McCann, tell me exactly what occurred from the time you started out with
Mr. Ricori to wherever it was he went. Don't skip a single detail."
He said:
"About two o'clock the boss goes to Mollie's-that's Peters' sister-stays an hour, comes out, goes home
and tells Paul to be back at four-thirty. But he's doing a lot of 'phoning so we don't start till five. He tells
Paul where he wants to go, a place over in a little street down off Battery Park. He says to Paul not to go