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“Why,” he inquired, “did he do that?”

“I—I don't know.”

“Was he on the plane?”

“Yes, I think he was. But I didn't speak to him. I had never seen him before, and I hardly noticed him.”

“Had anything at all happened previously that might explain why he did what he did?”

Della shook her head quickly. “I can't think of a reason.”

“Has anything at all unusual happened to you recently?”

She dropped her eyes. “No, it hasn't.”



A FEW minutes later, Sergeant Ellis stepped out of the room, closed the door behind him, and beckoned
with his head for a patrolman. “Go in there and keep an eye on her,” he told the patrolman. The Sergeant
then went to the terminal lobby, where he accosted the large young man Della Nelson had noticed on
two occasions.

“That babe,” said Sergeant Ellis, “is telling one lie right after another.”

The large young man asked, “Hasn't she told any truth at all?”

“Some, Mr. Savage. Just enough to make it pretty hard for me to keep from getting mad.”

“What did she tell the truth about?”

“Just what we already knew. About the guy accosting her here in the terminal, and what happened
afterward.”

“What warned her to break away from him?”

“She says he told her he was an airline vice-president, then she noticed two pilots didn't recognize their
own vice-president, and that scared her.”
“It logically would.”

“Oh, I believe that part of it. The thing is, she's leaving out too much.” Sergeant Ellis repeated what Della
Nelson had told him, consulting some notes as he did so. “She forgot all about Boston, about a murdered
guy named Riis who worked with her brother—”

“You didn't mention those things to her?”

Sergeant Ellis shook his head. “No, you said not to. I didn't give her the least hint that we knew
something about her, that the airline stewardess and pilot got kind of curious about her after the fat man
popped off dead from taking two aspirin tablets she almost took, and notified you because she had
started to radiophone you. She doesn't know about that. She doesn't know you are interested and on the