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closer to her.
      "But you sold them out in the end," I said. "Why? Why did you take that risk?"
      She looked away. "I wouldn't rail-road anyone into murder," she said. "Besides, I said I was on your side, remember?"
      "I remember," I said, "but you were in a jam. I wouldn't have blamed you if you had played with them."
      "Well, I didn't," she said.
      I turned her face so I could see her.
      "I could go for you," I said.
      She slid her arms round my neck and pulled my head down. "I've gone for you," she said, her lips against my neck. "I don't care. I can't keep it to myself. I wouldn't let them hurt you."
      We played around for a while: loving her wasn't hard work.
      "Now I wonder what I'm going to do with you?" I said, after the Camembert moon had moved around to our left.
      "Do?" She sat up, her eyes scared. "What should you do?"
      "Can I leave you here? Can you manage on your own?"
      She clutched at my arm. "What are you going to do?"
      "Use your nut, baby," I said. "I've got plenty to do. There's Killeano—remember him? That fat little guy who looks like Mussolini?"
      "But you're not going back to Paradise Palms?"
      "Sure I'm going back, I only came here so you could be safe."
      "Oh, you're crazy," she cried. "What can you do against so many?"
      "You'll be surprised," I said, smiling at her. "There's a murder rap hanging over us. I'm going to bust that for a start. We're not safe until I find Herrick's killer and persuade him to come clean."
      "But you can't go back alone," she said frantically.
      "I'm going back alone, and I'm going in a few minutes," I told her. "Ah I want to be sure about is that you'll be all right while I'm away."
      "I won't be all right," she said quickly—too quickly.
      I shook my head at her. "Oh yes, you will. Now listen, I'll be back tomorrow night. I'm taking the boat, and you're to stay near the house. You've the rifle and enough food. You keep your ears and eyes open, and you'll be all right. If anyone comes, lock yourself in the house. They won't get at you, if you use your head. But no one will come."
      "Suppose you don't come back?" she asked, her lips trembling.
      "You'll still be all right," I said. "I'm leaving you seventeen grand. Go to Mac. He'll get you back to New York somehow. I'll drop in and talk it over with him."
      "No," she said, "don't do that. I'd rather no one knows I'm alone."
    That made sense.
      "But you mustn't leave me." She pressed her face against mine. "I don't want to lose you now I've just found you."
      We argued back and forth, but I was going anyway. She got the idea at last, and stopped trying to persuade me. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, looking scared and sad.
      "All right," she said.
      "Herrick knew something important. It was so important that they killed him," I said. "Can you think what it could have been?"
      She shook her head. "I hardly knew him. He used to come to the Casino, but I never spoke to him."
      "Did he have a girl?"
      She nodded. "He went around with a red-head. She's a singer, and has an apartment on Lancing Avenue, a big chromium and black marble block on the left as you go up."
      "Know her?"
      "No, but I've heard the other girls talk about her. She's hard, not my type."
      "Her name?"
      "Lois Spence."
      "Okay, maybe she'll know something."
      "You will be careful?" she said, putting her hand on my knee.
      "Sure," I said. "Now Killeano. Know anything about him?"
      "Only that he is important, owns the Casino and is the City Administrator."
      "Did you ever ask yourself why Herrick should hang around the Casino? He wasn't a gambling man, was he?"
      "No."
      "Well, all right," I said, getting up. "Maybe Miss Spence will answer all the questions. I'm going to dress now, honey."
      I went into the house and put on a dark blue linen suit, a dark blue shirt and a dark red tie. I went into the sitting-room and found