TENA SCOPOPHILIAC is a Peeping Tom. I looked it up in the village public library. Actually, I called there in the interests of legal research. A volume entitled California Law for Laymen said the estate a testator could bequeath through an oral will was limited to one thousand dollars. It didn’t seem enough to have frightened Nelda.
I still thought Nelda had been afraid last night, and the scopophiliac in me peeked into the situation and wondered if a man’s dying declaration could acknowledge and legitimatize a child. But Law for Laymen left that point unanswered, so I had no real grounds to suspect Bob Crossway had been drowned before he could acknowledge and legitimatize a child.
Nelda might have done the deed, and Del Bolling might have had a dabbling hand in it. Was I stalking a dead
