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Cartwright brought Barker into the room and Leverage dismissed the plainclothesman. Barker, eyes wide with fear, face pallid yet with a certain belligerence in his attitude confronted the two detectives. "I say " he started, "what does this mean?" "It means," said Carroll coldly, "that you are under arrest for the murder of Roland Warren!" "That I'm " Barker fell back a step.
When the second truck left the Embassy with the large box, a police truck came innocently out of nowhere and just happened to be going the same way. Ten blocks away, again the truck load of Embassy parcels was flagged down and its driver's license and identity was verified. A plainclothesman put a stethoscope on the questionable case. He beamed, and made a suitable signal.
"Look," said the plainclothesman, "there could be something in it for you if you ... hm-m-m ... wanted to make a little extra money." The servant looked regretful. "No chance," he said, "he's leaving today." The plainclothesman jumped. "Today?" "For Darth," said the Embassy servant. "The ambassador's shipping him off on the space liner that came in last night." The plainclothesman dithered.
I rushed to the window, threw up the shade and opened the sash, waving our preconcerted sign, turning again toward the room. With a sudden accession of desperate strength, Savetsky broke away from the plainclothesman and again attempted to get at something concealed on the wall. I had turned just in time to fling myself between her and whatever object she had in mind.
With no more than the lifting of an eyebrow, Dundee made Captain Strawn understand that Flora Miles' movements were to be kept under strict observation, and the chief of the Homicide Squad as unobtrusively conveyed the order to a plainclothesman loitering interestedly in the wide doorway.
While Elaine was facing death in the power of the devil worshippers, I had reached the house of Savetsky next door with the police, and the place had been quietly surrounded. With the plainclothesman, a daring and intelligent fellow, I went to the door and rang the bell. "What can I do for you?" asked the medium, admitting us. "My friend, here," I parleyed, "is in great business trouble.
This morning he gets married " "A telegram, sir!" interrupted a plainclothesman, who had entered without knocking. Strawn snatched at it, read it, then exulted: "Read this, boy! I guess this settles the business!"
"Don't!" cried a familiar voice. "That is Mr. Kennedy!" Just then, from a little knot of people, Elaine Dodge sprang forward with a cry and seized the gun. Kennedy turned to her, apparently not half so much concerned about the automatic that yawned at him as about the anxiety of the pretty girl who had intervened. The too eager plainclothesman lowered the gun sheepishly.
"How's he going to get to the spaceport?" "I wouldn't know," said the servant. "They've figured out some way. I could use a little extra money, too." He lingered, but the plainclothesman was staring at the innocent, inviolable parcels about to leave the Embassy for distant parts. He took note of sizes and descriptions. No. Not yet. But if Hoddan was leaving he had to leave the Embassy.
With Karen Marshall clinging to his arm, Dundee walked down the hall, beyond the staircase to an open door on his left a door guarded by a lounging plainclothesman. Seated at the dressing-table of the guests' lavatory was Flora Miles, her sallow dark face so ravaged that she looked ten years older than when he had first seen her an hour before. "So you were in here when you heard Mrs.
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