By
the way, here's a piece of news for you! Heard it as I stopped in at the
Towers this morning. Saw that man Headland, the detective. He told me to
tell you, and I clean forgot. But they found an I.O.U. on Wynne's body,
an I.O.U. for two thou'--in Lester Stark's name. Dated two nights before
the party. Looks a bit funny, that, doesn't it?"
Funny? Merriton felt his heart suddenly bound upward, and as suddenly
drop back in his breast like lead. Glad that there was a chance for
another pal to come under the same brutal sway as he had? What sort of
a friend was he, anyway? But an I.O.U.!... And in Lester Stark's name!
He remembered the black looks that passed between the two of them that
night, remembered them as though they had been but yesterday. He jerked
his chin up.
"What're they going to do about it?"
"Headland told me to tell you that he was going to investigate the matter
further. That you were to keep up your heart.... Seemed a decent sort of
a chap, I must say."
Keep up his heart!... And there was a chance of someone else taking his
share of the damnable thing, after all!.
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