10. THE LETTER FROM LONDON
Captain Flannery got up and took a turn about the room. He was a simple man and the look on his face suggested that the complexities of his calling were growing irksome. He stopped in front of Eileen Enderby.
“So—the elevator girl in the Kirk Building was Jennie Jerome? Then you lied a few minutes ago when you told Miss Morrow you hadn’t seen her?”
“You can’t hold that against her,” Enderby protested. “She’s come back of her own free will to tell you the truth.”
“But why didn’t she tell it in the first place?”
“One doesn’t care to become involved in a matter of this sort. That’s only natural.”
“All right, all right.” Flannery turned back to Mrs. Enderby. “You say you recognized this girl when you were going down in the elevator, on your way home after the d
