Next, she told her story to Mr. Dudley. In this telling, she not only left out the rendezvous with Anthony, but she also left out the part about Wells coming across Anthony and her as they cuddled in the car that cold winter night.
As she explained, Dudley chomped a cigar until the end was in tatters. She watched the variety of expressions cross his face. The furrows between his heavy eyebrows deepened and he frowned when she told him that she and Anthony had taken up after the first interview. A smile flitted when she told him what she had put together after talking to Caruso"s widow, Wells, and Anthony. There was skepticism at mention of the ghostly cousin, Jack.
Carefully, she wove her way through the minefield of explaining why she had been waiting on her friend"s porch for a visit f
