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"All right," said the girl, "I'll be there. You tell him that he simply must come."
She hung up the receiver and then called a taxi. She gave a number on a side
street about a half block away, where she knew it would be reasonably dark, and
consequently less danger of detection.
Three-quarters of an hour later her taxi drew up beside Mother Kruger's, but the
girl did not alight. She had waited but a short time when another taxi swung in
beside the road-house, turned around and backed up alongside hers. A man
stepped out and peered through the glass of her machine. It was the Lizard.
Recognizing the girl he opened the door and took a seat beside her. "Well,"
inquired the Lizard, "What's on your mind?"
"Jimmy," replied the girl.
"I thought so," returned the Lizard. "It looks pretty bad for him, don't it? I wish
there was some way to help him."
"
"
He did not do it," said the girl.
It didn't seem like him," said the Lizard, "but I got it straight from a guy who
knows that he done it all right."
"
Who?" asked Edith.
Murray."
"
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