She said seriously: "Listen to me, Julian. One thing we know. There's no particular hue and cry out for you; otherwise it would have been in the papers here. Remember that a murder on one of the Bahama Islands is news—big news. There's been practically nothing in the papers. If the Miami police had been looking for you they'd have found you. It's my belief that they're not even looking for you; that no one has asked them to."
Isles said: "That's very interesting. Why do you think that?"
"Work it out for yourself. You saw the Commissioner of Police on the night when you discovered this murdered man. You told him a story that must have sounded extraordinary, but you don't think he'd be so stupid as not to check on that story, do you?"
He sat up again. He said: "I'm beginning to see what y
