“I’m not insinuating; I’m just saying,” said the cowboy star firmly.
The director turned back to Janet.
“You’re sure the manuscript was stolen?”
“It was unless someone in the studio here has it,” she replied.
“I’ll make inquiries,” he promised, “but I am sure no one in the studio would have sent for it.”
Mr. Adolphi left studio K and Janet, Helen and Curt Newsom were alone.
“You’re not kidding about the manuscript being missing?” Curt asked.
“No, Curt, I’m terribly serious. We went out for a time yesterday afternoon. While we were gone the maid came in to leave clean towels and while she was in the room a man came in. He said he was from the studio here and had come for the manuscript. Naturally the girl didn’t object and he walked out with the papers.”
“What did you have in the story?”
“Oh, a lot about the final days in the desert. How the attempts were made to stop the picture, the bombing from the sky and my own kidnaping.”