Who Killed Bob Teal? by Dashiell Hammett (best e book reader for android txt) π
Dean showed his badge, and told her that we wanted to speak to her in privacy. She got up to chase the kids and their dog out, and then stood with hands on hips facing us.
"Well, what do you want?" she demanded sourly.
"Want to get a line on your tenants," Dean said. "Tell us about them."
"Tell you about them?" She had a voice that would have been harsh enough even if she hadn't been in such a peevish mood. "What do you think I got to say about 'em? What do you think I am? I'm a woman that minds her own business! Nobody can't say that I don't run a respectable --"
This was getting us nowhere.
"Who lives in number one?" I asked.
"The
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Ogburn had taken Bob Teal over behind the billboards on some pretext, and had murdered him. Then he had hurried back to his partner, cryirig: βMy God! He grabbed me and I shot him. Weβll have to leave!β
Whitacre, in blind panic, had left San Francisco without stopping for his bags or even notifying Mae Landis. Ogburn was supposed to leave by another route. They were to meet in Oklahoma City ten days later, where Ogburn β after getting the loot out of the Los Angeles banks where he had deposited it under various names β was to give Whitacre his share, and then they were to part for good.
In Sacramento next day Whitacre had read the newspapers, and had understood what had been done to him. He had done all the bookkeeping; all the false entries in Ogburn & Whitacreβs books were in his writing. Mae Landis had revealed his former criminal record, and had fastened the ownership of the gun β really Ogburnβs β upon him. He was framed completely! He hadnβt a chance of clearing himself.
He had known that his story would sound like a far-fetched and flimsy lie; he had a criminal record. For him to have surrendered and told the truth would have been merely to get himself laughed at.
As it turned out, Ogburn went to the gallows, Mae Landis is now serving a fifteen-year sentence, and Whitacre, in return for his testimony and restitution of the loot, was not prosecuted for his share in the land swindle.
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