13/20 He could tell--he must have some record of it; but would he ?" "Don't you know, even, why she came and glommed onto me like that ?" Ford's face was as anxious as his tone. "Maybe you told it straight, and maybe you didn't; there's no banking on a man's imagination when he's soused. But the way you told it to me was this: "You said the girl told you that she was working for some queer old party--an old lady with lots of dough; and she made her will and give her money all to some institution--hospital or some darned thing, I forget just what, or else you didn't say. Only, if this girl would marry her son within a certain time, he could have the wad. |