“I’ve found a key, Jerry! It was lying here on the ground.”
“One of the men must have lost it from his pocket.”
“This may have been what they were fighting over, Jerry!”
“What makes you think that?”
“Doesn’t the key look as if it belonged to a padlock?”
“Yes, it does, Penny.”
“Then I am convinced this key will fit the lock on Peter Fenestra’s storm cellar! His attacker was trying to get it away from him!”
“Just a minute,” remonstrated Jerry. “You’re traveling too fast for me. Explain the storm cellar part.”
“You’ll promise not to use anything I tell you for the Star?”
“That’s fair enough.”