Dillon tells me that it now appears that Forbes had
been intimate with that Rena Taylor."
"Yes?" I repeated, not surprised.
"At least that's what Herman has told him."
"Well," I exclaimed in disgust, "Forbes is a fine one to run
around with stool-pigeons and women of the Tenderloin, in addition
to his other accomplishments, and then expect to associate with a
girl like Violet Winslow."
"It is scandalous," he agreed. "Why, according to Dillon and
Herman, she must have been getting a good deal of evidence through
her intimacy with Forbes. They probably gambled together, drank
together, and---"
"Do you suppose Forbes ever found out that she was really using
him?"
Garrick shook his head. "I can't say," he replied. "There isn't
much value in this deductive, long distance detective work. You
reason a thing out to your satisfaction and then one little fact
knocks all your clever reasoning sky-high. The trouble here is
that on this aspect of the case the truth seems to have been known
by only two persons--and one of them is dead, while the other has
disappeared.
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