"I'd like you to show me."
"Yes, I can do it. There's a girl came this morning. I saw her—"
"A girl?"
"Beautiful girl. She was beautiful—I saw her. They took her upstairs. I know where."
Alan gestured to me. "Watch out if anybody comes! Charlie, tell me!"
I moved nearer the corridor entrance. Alan and Charlie stood by the window. I could hear them.
"She's sick, but her mother didn't bring her. Men brought her—in a taxi like I saw you come in."
"Charlie, if I should come here—"
"I've got a key to the roof. You're not allowed up there. Nobody's ever been up there but me. I'm too smart for them—'Keys to open Bluebeard's room'—you can't open anything without a key. Keys to open Bluebeard's—"
"Charlie, stop that!"