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Updated: June 8, 2025
Jim lit a cigarette and threw himself into a chair. For a few moments he puffed in silence, taking deep inhalations and blowing the smoke against the lighted tip, so that it showed all the rugged, strength of his superb head. "What would you say, Bupps, if I told you everything would come out all right?" "And Helen stay with you?" I asked incredulously.
"I'll be with you in a second," she called, running up-stairs. When Mary was snuggled down beside me in the car and she does snuggle the best of any girl I ever knew I told her everything, not forgetting the part where I wrenched the gun away from Woods. "Goodness, Bupps! I bet you were scared," she commented, her eyes twinkling.
"Do you remember what you said when I tried to ask you to marry me?" I whispered. She shook her head. "You told me to wait until Helen was well." "You know, Bupps the first thing I said to Helen this this afternoon was " "What?" "'How how well you're looking." With her face so close to mine and those lovely lips smiling at me so invitingly, there was only one thing to do, so I did it.
Their money and their high position will not help them to escape a just retribution." "It looks as though our friend was going to have a very restless time," I commented, after reading the passage aloud to Jim. "'Vengeance is mine, saith Zalnitch." Jim's eyes twinkled. "You're not afraid of him, are you, Jim?" I asked. "No more now than ever, Bupps." His face suddenly clouded over.
Says he wants to see me urgently on business that concerns us both." "Did he ask you to come alone?" "Yes. He distinctly said that I was to come alone and be prompt." "Jim," I argued, "you can't go out there alone to meet that man. It's too infernally dangerous." "There's no danger, Bupps; but I'm not going alone. Helen is going with me."
It was the veriest accident I was stalling for time but when I saw him color up I knew I'd touched a sore spot. No, Bupps, I don't think Woods has a private fortune." "But even if you show him up as worthless, will Helen come back to you, Jim?" The color came to his face and he laughed with a queer twist to his mouth. "Am I as horrible as all that, Bupps?" His words brought a lump to my throat.
You shan't threaten him while I'm there! I knew, of course, they were speaking of Frank Woods, but I didn't know what it was all about. But why do you ask all this, Bupps?" "Mary," I said, and I couldn't look at her, "the coroner has given a verdict of murder." "Murder?" Mary gasped. I nodded.
"Will you have luncheon with me, Mary?" "Certainly," she answered. "Let's go to Luigi's. We can talk quietly there." I headed for down-town and kept my eyes on the road, dreading to put my questions into words. "What was it, Bupps?" Mary asked. I decided to ask what I had to ask before telling her the coroner's verdict. "Did you see Helen leave the house with Jim yesterday?" "Yes.
"Heavens, Bupps!" she was serious enough now. "Where did they go?" "They went, but they came back. Helen's home with Jim. They tried to force him to give Helen a divorce. There was an awful fight and Woods swore that he would kill Jim unless he let Helen go. But put on your hat and coat and get your things. Helen needs you with her. I'll tell you the rest on the way over."
Again she repeated over and over, 'He didn't do it He didn't do it!" "Her other fears," I replied, "probably had to do with Woods. But that cry to Jim to 'Look out! is a real clue and I'm going to sift it to the bottom." "What are you going to do?" Mary demanded. "I'm going to accuse Zalnitch of Jim's murder going to accuse him to his face." "Oh, be careful, Bupps! Nothing must happen to you!"
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