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Updated: June 21, 2025
Nothin' imposin' about Mr. Zosco. Hardly. Kind of a dumpy, short-legged party, with a round smooth face, sort of mild brown eyes, and his hair worn in a skinned diamond effect.
That gets a quick rise out of the former Myrtle Mapes, now Mrs. Zosco. "Why why," says she, "my brother Ellery does." "That's so," put in Zosco. "Where is the youngster?" "Ellery?" says Myrtle, givin' him that innocent baby-doll look. "Oh, he must be in his room. I I will look." "Never mind," says I. "Probably he is. It doesn't matter. Visiting here, too, eh? How long? About two weeks.
"And never know what is going on?" protests Vee. "Certainly not. I'm going to knock." Which she does. "There!" says I. "You've touched off the panic." For a minute it looked like she had, too, for most of 'em jumps startled, or clutches each other by the arm. Then they sort of surges towards the doorway, Zosco in the lead.
Ask him about the slow poison in Maggie's coffee, and stealin' the jewels, and and all the rest." "Why, Ellery!" gasps Mrs. Zosco. "Didn't I catch you snifflin'?" demands Ellery. "And ain't you been mopin' around?" "Oh!" says she. "But that was before Andy had promised to let me play the lead in his new eight-reel feature, 'The Singed Moth. I've been chipper enough since, haven't I, Andy, dear?"
Not one of the kind to go slippin' into town on a spree. Not him. And never carries around much ready money or jewelry. No holdup men out here, anyway." "But but he's gone!" moans Matilda. "Sure he is," admits Zosco. "Maybe back to Saginaw. Something might have happened at the store.
Maybe you've seen him ridin' round in the limousine short, thick-set party, good deal like me, only a few years younger." Mr. Robert shakes his head. "Sorry," says he, "but I don't recall " "Oh, likely you wouldn't notice him," goes on Zosco. "Nothing fancy about Jake, plain dresser and all that. But what gets us is how he could have lost himself for so long." "Lost!" echoes Mr. Robert.
I've known him to unravel stranger things than this. I would even venture to say that he has hit on a clue while we've been talking." Course, a good deal of it is Mr. Robert's josh. He's always springin' that line. But Zosco, after he's looked me over keen, shrugs his shoulders doubtful. Mrs. Jake, though, is ready to grab at anything. "Can you find him?" she asks, starin' at me.
"We we are interrupting a family council or something, aren't we?" he asks. "Oh, glad to have you," says Zosco. "It's nothing secret, and perhaps you can help us out. We're a little upset, for a fact. It's about my brother Jake. He's been visiting us, him and his wife, for the past week.
"It was Maggie Bean back in Shelby, where we come from. And she was Maggie Bean when she went to New York and got that job as a stenog. in old Zosco's office. It was him that gave her a chance to act in the movies, you know. Guess she made good, eh? And then Zosco got so stuck on her that he married her. Well, that was all right, too. Course, he's an old pill, but he's got all kinds of dough.
Anyway, it had begun to work. Maggie was mopin' around. I found her cryin'. I spotted Jake Zosco right off. You can tell just by lookin' at him that he's that kind. Besides, he acts suspicious. Always prowlin' around restless. Then there's the butler. He's in it, too. I caught him and Jake whisperin' together. I don't know how many more.
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