Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
They are threatening to do all kinds of things to him, just as they threatened me, unless Zalnitch goes free, and I think Fallon is afraid of them, not physically perhaps, but politically. He wants reelection." Jim had helped the prosecuting attorney convict Zalnitch; in fact it was Jim's work more than anything else that had sent the Russian to prison.
I made up my mind I'd lead the reporters a merry old chase before they ran me to earth, and when they did, I'd tell them nothing. I also wanted to get in touch with Robinson as soon as I could, to find out whether he had discovered anything new of Zalnitch and his confederates but that could wait until evening.
Zalnitch is obsessed by a wonderful idea. You people call him 'Bolshevist' and 'anarchist, because he is trying to overthrow the existing order of things. In working out his great theory, he would stamp out a nation if it interfered with the fulfillment of his plan, and he would not think that he had done anything wrong. In fact, he would think it the only thing to do.
The case against Zalnitch falls down. We can strike him off the list." I hated to give him up, but I had to admit Simpson's logic was faultless. "Now let us take up the case of Woods. Here is a man who threatened Felderson's life unless he gave his wife a divorce, which you say Felderson did not intend to do. There, again, is a motive.
Let's take Zalnitch first, for I think suspicion falls the slightest on him. You say that Felderson helped to convict Zalnitch in the Yellow Pier case and that he made vague threats against those who had put him in prison, after he was released. Good! There's a motive and a threat. He was seen on the same road that Mr. Felderson traveled, a short time before the murder.
Schreiber and Zalnitch were at the bottom of it, after all, and Helen was innocent. As I had hoped she would die, when I thought her guilty, now I hoped and prayed she would live. I recalled Doctor Forbes' words: "If we could only hit on something that would ease her mind of those fears, I would have every reason to believe she would get well."
"Be careful when you meet him, Jim," I warned. "He'll go to the limit, you know, to save himself." "He's all front, Bupps; just like Zalnitch. I'll give him three days to straighten out his affairs and get away. If he hasn't left by then, I'll put all the evidence I have into the hands of the Capitol Loan and Trust." "Are you going to tell Helen about this?" I asked. Jim pondered a moment.
My suspicions against Zalnitch had been based on the knowledge that he hated Jim and would have done anything to put him out of the way. Coincidence had brought him over the same road that Jim had traveled a few minutes before his death. This had strengthened my suspicions, but the case would have been hard to prove, while the evidence against Helen was too pronounced to be disregarded.
I noticed with admiration and dissatisfaction, that unlike my stenographers, she didn't have to stop to erase a misspelled word every two minutes. I wondered what salary Zalnitch paid her and if she would like to change employers. "I hope you will pardon my interrupting your work " I began. "You're not," the girl responded, without even glancing up.
Who were the others with him?" Robinson gazed at me with a stupid frown. "Two reporters from The Sun, a fellow by the name of Pederson, Otto Metzger and that Russian, Zalnitch, who just got out of prison." "Zalnitch!" I yelled exultantly. Zalnitch! The man Jim had sent to prison and who had threatened revenge. Metzger, who had been his accomplice all along.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking