As I sat there between him and Mr. George—Jack2 Reddy went away, I don't know why—with neither of them saying a word, I saw, like it was a vision, the Harland case spreading out black and dreadful. It made me think of ink spilled on a map, running slow but sure over places that were bright and clean, trickling3 away in directions no one ever thought it would take.
I left soon after Jack, as I could see they wanted to get rid of me. Before I went the old man said to try and get a line on the Whitehalls' servant—I might work it through Iola—and find out what time Miss Whitehall came home the night of January fifteenth. If I couldn't manage it I was to let him know and it could be passed on to O'Mally, but he thought I had the best chances. That, as far as he knew now, was the last he'd need of me. My work at the Black Eagle was done. The next day would be my last one there. Say nothing to anyone about it—simply drop out. The reappearance of Miss McCalmont was his affair.
In the next twenty-four hours things came swift, as they do in these cases. You'll have a long spell with the wires dead, then suddenly they'll begin to hum. And you've got to be ready when it happens—jump quick as lightning. I learned that in the Hesketh case.
The first chance came that night, was sitting in the parlor4 when I reached home—Iola! She had the hope of a new job—a good one—and wanted a recommendation letter from Miss Whitehall, and naturally, being Iola, couldn't go unless I came along and held the sponge.
It was so pat you'd think fate had fixed5 it, and it worked out as pat as it began. While Iola was in the parlor getting her letter I stayed in the kitchen—very meek6 and humble—and when the servant came back—Delia was her name—started in to help her with the dishes. We grew neighborly over the work, she washing and I wiping, and what was more natural than that we'd work around to the affairs of the ladies. They'd lost all their money and Delia was going to leave. How did that happen now? Sure, it's the feller that killed himself done it—didn't I know? I only had to let her talk, she was the flannel-mouth Irish kind. Here are the facts as they went in to Whitney & Whitney the next day.
Miss Whitehall was generally very punctual, always getting home about half-past six. On the night of January fifteenth she didn't get back till a quarter to eight. Such a delay was evidently not expected as Mrs. Whitehall became extremely nervous, couldn't keep still or settle to anything. At a quarter to eight, hearing the key inserted in the door, Delia had gone into the hall, and seen Miss Whitehall enter. She was very pale and agitated7. Delia had never seen her look so upset. She walked up the passage, met her mother and without a word they went into a bedroom and shut the door.
At dinner she ate nothing and hardly spoke8 at all—looked and acted as if she was sick. The next morning when she read of the Harland suicide in the paper she nearly fainted, and after that was in bed for three days, prostrated9 by the shock, she told Delia.
I guessed this would be my last piece of work on the Harland case and I wasn't sorry. There was an awfulness coming over it that was too much for me. But it wasn't, not by a long shot. I was in deeper than I knew, so deep—but that comes later. I'll go on now to tell what happened that last night I was in the Black Eagle Building.
It was coming on for closing time and I was making ready to go. I'd cleared up all my little belongings10, and was standing11 by the switchboard pressing the tray cloth careful into my satchel12, when I heard a step stop at the door and a cheerful voice sing out:
"Just in the nick of time. Spreading her wings ready for flight."
There in the doorway13, filling it up with his big shape, was Tony Ford14. For the first moment I got a sort of setback15. Mightn't anyone—thinking of home and husband and finding yourself face to face with a gunman?
With one hand still in the satchel I stood eyeing him, not a word out of me, solemn as a tombstone. It didn't phaze him a bit. Teetering from his heels to his toes, a grin on him like the slit16 in a post box, he stood there as calm as if he'd never come nearer murder than to spell it in the fourth grade.
"It just came to me a few moments ago—as I was passing by here—that the prettiest and smartest hello girl in New York mightn't have gone home yet," he said.
Now if you're experienced about men—and take it from me hello girls are—you never believe a word a chap like Tony Ford hands out. But hearing those words and looking at his broad, conceited17 face, it came to me that these were true. He'd been passing, suddenly thought of me, and dropped in to see if I was there.
"Well," I answered, "here I am. What of it?"
"First of it," he said, "is how long are you going to be there?"
"Till I get this satchel closed," I said and pressing hard on the catch it snapped shut.
My first thought was I was going to get away from him as fast as the Interborough System could take me—and then I had a second thought. Why had Tony Ford dropped in so opportune19 at my closing hour? To ask me to dinner. And why couldn't I, hired to do work for Whitney & Whitney, do a little extra for good measure? I knew they wanted to hear Ford's own account of what he did the evening of January fifteenth, but that they couldn't get it. What was the matter with me, Molly Babbitts, getting it for them?
It flashed into my head like lightning and it didn't flash out again. Frightened? Not a bit! Keyed up though—like your blood begins to run quick. I'd taken some risky20 dares in my time but it was a new one on me to dine with a murderer. But honest, besides the pleasure of doing something for the old man, there was a creepy sort of thrill about it that strung up my nerves and made me feel like I was going to shoot Niagara in a barrel.
"Going home, eh?" said he. "It's a long, cold ride home."
"That's the first truth you've said," I answered. "And for showing me you can do it I'll offer you my grateful thanks."
I began to put on my gloves, he standing in the doorway watching.
"To break the journey with a little bit of dinner might be a good idea."
"It might," I said, "if anybody had it."
"I have it. I've had it all day."
"What's the good of having it if you haven't got the price." I picked up my satchel and looked cool and pitying at him. "Unless you're calculating to take me to the bread line."
"There you wrong me," he answered. "Nothing but the best for you," and putting his hand into his vest pocket he drew out a roll of bills, folding them back one by one and giving each a name, "Canvas back, terrapin21, champagne22, oyster23 crabs24, alligator25 pears, anything the lady calls for."
Those greenbacks, flirted26 over so carelessly by his strong, brown fingers, gave me the horrors. Blood money! I drew back. If he hadn't been blocking up the entrance, I think I'd have quit it and made a break for the open. He glanced up and saw my face, and I guess it looked queer.
"What are you staring so for? They're not counterfeit27."
The feeling passed, and anyway I couldn't get out without squeezing by him and I didn't want to touch him any more than I would a spider.
"I was calculating how much of it I could eat," I said. "My folks don't like me to dine out so when I do I try to catch up with all the times I've refused."
"Come along then," he said, stepping back from the doorway. "I know a bully28 little joint29 not far from here. You can catch up there if you've been refusing dinners since the first telephone was installed."
Can you see into my mind—it was boiling with thoughts like a Hammam bath with steam? What would Soapy say? He'd be raging, but after all he couldn't do anything more than rage. You can't divorce a woman for dining with a murderer, especially if she only does it once. Mr. Whitney'd be all right. If I got what I intended to get he'd pass me compliments that would take O'Mally's pride down several pegs31. As for myself—Tony Ford wouldn't want to murder me. There was nothing in it, and judging by the pleasant things he said as we walked to the restaurant, you'd think to keep me alive and well was the dearest wish of his heart.
The restaurant was one of those quiet foreign ones, in an old dwelling32 house, sandwiched in among shops and offices. It was a decent place—I'd been there for lunch with Iola—in the daytime full of business people, and at night having the sort of crowd that gathers where boarding houses and downtown apartments and hotels for foreigners give up their dead.
We found a table in a corner of the front room, with the wall to one side of us and the long curtains of the window behind me. There were a lot of people and a few waiters, one of whom Mr. Ford summoned with a haughty33 jerk of his head. Then he sprawled34 grandly in his chair with menus and wine lists, telling the waiter how to serve things that were hot and ice things that were cold till you'd suppose he'd been a chef along with all his other jobs. He put on a great deal of side, like he was a cattle king from Chicago trying to impress a Pilgrim Father from Boston. The only way it impressed me was to make me think a gunman with blood on his soul wasn't so different from an innocent clerk with nothing to trouble him but the bill at the end.
As he was doing this I took off my veil and gloves, careful to pull off my wedding ring—I wasn't going to have that sidetracking him—and thinking how I'd begin.
We were through the soup and on the fish when I decided35 the time was ripe to ring the bell and start. I did it quietly:
"I guess you've got a new place?"
"No, I'm still one of the unemployed36. Don't I act like it?" He smiled, a patronizing smirk37, pleased he'd got the hello girl guessing.
"You act to me like the young millionaire cutting his teeth on Broadway."
"I inherited some money this winter from an uncle up-state. You're not drinking your wine. Don't you like it?"
In his tone, and a shifting of his eyes to the next table, I caught a suggestion of something not easy, put on. Maybe if you hadn't known what I did you wouldn't have noticed what was plain to me—he didn't like the subject.
"No, I never touch wine," I answered. "I don't want to speak unfeelingly but it was mighty39 convenient your uncle died just as your business failed. Wasn't it too bad about Miss Whitehall?"
"Very unfortunate, poor girl. Bad for me but worse for her."
"She had no idea it was coming, I suppose?"
He looked up sudden and sharp:
"What was coming?"
His small gray eyes sent a glance piercing into mine, full of a quick, arrested attention.
"Why—why—the ruin of Mr. Harland."
"Oh, that," he was easy again, "I thought you meant the suicide. I don't know whether she knew or not. Waiter"—he turned and made one of those grandstand plays to the waiter—"take this away and bring on the next."
"She'd have known that night as soon as she heard he was dead but I guess she was so paralyzed she didn't think of herself."
"I don't know what she thought of. She wasn't in the office."
I dropped my eyes to my plate. Eliza crossing on the ice didn't have anything over me in the way she picked her steps.
"Oh, she'd gone before it happened?"
"Yes. I left early myself that night—before she did. I was halfway40 home when I remembered some papers I'd said I'd go over and had to hike back for them. She was gone when I got there. And just think how gruesome it was, when I was going down in the elevator Harland jumped, struck the street a few minutes before I reached the bottom."
Could you beat it! Knowing what had been done in that closed office, knowing what was going to be done while he was sliding down from story to story and then getting it off that way, as smooth as cream. A sick feeling rose up inside me. I wanted to get away from him and see an honest face and feel the cold, fresh air. Dining with a gunman wasn't as easy as I'd thought.
Tony Ford, leaning across his plate, tapped on the cloth with his knife handle to emphasize his words:
"He must have been up that side corridor waiting. When he heard the gate shut and the car go down, he came out, walked to the hall window and jumped. Ugh!" he gave a wriggling41 movement with his broad shoulders. "That takes nerve!"
I suppose sometimes in crowds you pass murderers, but you don't know them for what they are. Probably never again if I lived to be a hundred, would I sit this way, not only conversing42 with one, but conversing about his crime. It wasn't what you'd look back on afterward as one of the happy memories of your life, but it was a red-letter experience. I had a vision of telling my grandchildren how once, when I was young, I talked with one of the blackest criminals of his day on the subject of the deed he'd helped commit.
"It's a fortunate thing he left no family." It was something to say, and I had to keep him moving along the same line. "You'd suppose he'd have married again, being wealthy and handsome."
"And I guess he could have had his pick. Maybe he cared for someone who didn't reciprocate44."
He threw away the match and lolled back in his chair.
"Maybe," he said with a meaning secret air.
It wouldn't have taken a girl just landed at Ellis Island to see that he wanted to be questioned. It was out on him like a rash. So not to disappoint him and also being curious I asked:
"Was he in love with someone?"
He said nothing but blew a smoke ring into the air, staring at it as it floated away. I waited while he blew another ring, the look on his face as conscious as an actor's when he has the middle of the stage. Then he spoke in a weighty tone:
"Harland was in love—madly in love."
This was news to me. I hadn't looked for it and I didn't know where it might lead. I didn't have to hide my interest; he expected it, was gratified when he saw me open-mouthed. But he had to do a little more acting45, and tapping on his wine glass with his forefinger46 said languid to the waiter:
"Fill it up—the lady won't take any." Then, his eyes following the smoke rings—"Nobody had an idea of it—nobody but me. I knew Harland better than many who considered themselves his friends."
"You knew him," it came out of me before I thought, or I'd never have put the accent on the "you" that way.
"I knew him well. He'd—er—taken rather a fancy to me."
I couldn't say anything—the man he'd killed! Fortunately he didn't notice me. The wine he'd taken was beginning to make him less sharp. Not that he was under the influence, but he was not so clear-headed and his natural vanity was coming up plainer every minute. He went on:
"I met him quite casually47 in the Black Eagle Building and then—well, something about me attracted him. Anyway we grew friendly—and—er—that's how I stumbled on his secret."
"His love?"
He inclined his head majestically48:
"You can see how it was possible when I tell you the lady was Miss Whitehall."
Believe me I got a thrill! There was a second when I had to bite on my under lip to keep an exclamation49 from bursting out. This was something, something that no one had had a suspicion of, something that might lead—I couldn't follow it then—that time, what I had to do was to find out everything he knew.
"Are you sure?" I breathed out incredulous.
"You just guessed it?"
He suddenly wheeled in his chair and looked at me, with that same piercing, almost fierce look I'd seen before. The wine he'd been drinking showed red in his face, and in his manner there was a roughness that was new.
"Of course I guessed it. A man like Harland doesn't go round telling you he's in love. But I'm a pretty sharp chap. Many things don't escape me. He didn't have to tell me. I was on the spot and I saw."
Why didn't Iola see? She was on the spot too and when it came to romance no man that breathes has anything on Iola. I ventured as carefully as if I was walking on the subway tracks, and didn't know which was the third rail.
"He tried to keep it a secret?"
"Oh, he tried and I guess he did except from little Tony."
"What did she feel—Miss Whitehall—about him?"
"Not the way he did."
"Perhaps there was someone else?"
A meaning look came over his face and he said softly:
"Perhaps there was."
"Who?"
I don't know whether it was an interest that stole into my voice without my knowledge or some instinct that warned him, but suddenly he pulled himself up. The lounging swagger dropped from him, and he gave me a look from under his eyebrows51, sullen52 and questioning. Then like a big animal, restless and uneasy, he glanced over the littered-up table, pushing his napkin in among the glasses and muttering something about the wine. I didn't want him to know I was watching and hunted in my lap for my gloves. But to say I was keen isn't the word, for I could see into him as if his chest was plate glass and what I saw was that he was scared he'd said too much.
"How should I know?" he suddenly exclaimed, as if there'd been no pause. "I don't know anything about Miss Whitehall. Just happening to be round in the office I caught on to Harland's infatuation. Anyone would. She may have a dozen strings53 to her bow for all I know or care." He gave me an investigating look—how was I taking it?—and I smiled innocently back. That reassured54 him and he twisted round in his chair, snapping his fingers at the waiter, "Here, lively—my bill. Don't keep us waiting all night."
The waiter who'd been hovering55 round watching us eating through those layers of food darted56 off like a dog freed from the leash57. Mr. Ford subsided58 back into his chair. He was more at ease, but not all right yet as his words proved.
"Don't you go quoting me, now, as having said anything about Harland and Miss Whitehall. He's in his grave, poor chap, and I don't like to figure as having talked over his private affairs. Doesn't look well, you know."
"Sure," I said comfortably. "I'm on."
My gloves were buttoned and my veil down. Mr. Ford, leaning his elbows on the table, was looking at me with what he thought was a romantic gaze, long and deep. In my opinion he looked like a fool—men mostly do when they're trying to be sentimental59 on a heavy meal. But I wasn't worrying about that. What was engaging me was how I could shake him without telling him who I was or where I lived. In the first excitement of corralling him I'd never thought of it. Now the result of my rash act was upon me. If you ever dine with a murderer, take my advice—when you start in lay your pipes for getting out.
As we waited for that bill I was as uncomfortable as if I had to pay it. Suppose I couldn't escape and he followed me home? Babbitts would be like the mad elephant in the Zoo, and from what I knew of Tony Ford he might draw a pistol and make me a widow.
"Have you enjoyed your dinner, little one?" said he, soft and slushy.
"Fine!" I answered, pulling my coat off the chair back.
"We've got to be good friends, haven't we?"
"Pals," I said.
"Don't you think we know each other well enough for you to tell me your name?"
"They say there's a great charm about the unknown," I answered. "And I want to be as charming as it's possible with the restrictions60 nature's put upon me."
"You don't need any extra trimmings," said he. "You might as well tell me, for I can always find out at the Black Eagle Building."
Could he? I was Miss Morgenthau there, and today was positively61 my last appearance. If I could get away from him now I was safe from his ever finding me.
The waiter brought the bill with murmurings that it was to be paid at the desk. We rose, Mr. Ford feeling in his pocket, the waiter trying to look listless, as if money was no treat to him. I moved across the room and reconnoitered. The desk, with a fat gray-haired woman sitting behind it, was close by the door that led into the hall. Several people were out there putting on coats and hats and jabbering62 together in a foreign lingo63. I sauntered carelessly through the doorway, seeing, out of the tail of my eye, Mr. Ford put down a twenty-dollar bill on the counter. The gray-haired woman began to pull out little drawers and make change. One of the people in the hall opened the front door and they began filing out. I went with them, slow on their heels at first, then fast, dodging64 between them, then like a streak65 down the steps to the sidewalk and up the street.
It was an awful place to hide in—all lights and show windows; a fish might as well try to conceal66 itself in a parlor aquarium67. There wasn't a niche68 that you could have squeezed a cat into and I had to get somewhere. Suddenly I saw a narrow flight of stairs with a large set of teeth hanging over them and up that I went, stumbling on my skirt till I reached a landing and flattened69 back against the dentist's door. It was locked or I would have gone in, so scared I was of that man—gone in, and if the price of concealment70 had been a set of false teeth I make no doubt I'd have ordered them.
After a while I ventured down, took a look out and stole away, dodging along dark side streets and round corners with my muff up against my face, till I struck a cab stand. Not a word came out of me till I was safe inside a taxi, and then I almost whispered my address to the chauffeur71.
As we sped along I quieted down and began to think—going over what he'd said, connecting things up. And as I thought, bouncing round in that empty vehicle like one small pea in a pod that was too big, I saw it plainer and plainer, as if one veil after another was being lifted. Harland was in love with her—she'd not gone down in the elevator—she'd stayed there! she'd been there! She'd—
We went over a chuck hole and I bounced up nearly to the roof, but the smothered72 cry that came from me wasn't because of that. It was because I saw—the whole thing was as clear as daylight. She'd been the lure73 that brought him to the Azalea Woods Estates, she'd been the person that kept him in the front office while Barker came down from the story above!
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