[One Wonderful Night by Louis Tracy]@TWC D-Link bookOne Wonderful Night CHAPTER XI 9/18
She knows you went out with Steingall, and he is a dangerous character." "Is Mrs.Curtis staying in the Plaza ?" asked the puzzled McCulloch. "Yes." "But I thought you occupied a room at the Central Hotel in 27th Street ?" "I did, but I got married at half-past eight, and we went to the Plaza." "Married at half-past eight--just after the murder!" The policeman's words formed a crescendo of sheer surprise.
For some indefinable reason this curious conjunction of a crime and a wedding went beyond his comprehension. "Yes, it happened so.
It might have been avoided, yet, looking back now over the whole of the circumstances, it would appear that I have followed a beaten track inevitable as death." Of course, the roundsman could not grasp the somber thought underlying Curtis's words, but a species of indeterminate suspicion prompted his next question. "You came from the Plaza with Mr.Steingall, I believe, sir ?" "Yes.
We were having supper there, with Mr.Devar and my uncle and aunt, when Mr.Clancy rang him up on the telephone, and he invited us to accompany him to the Police Headquarters.
The rest you know." Certainly, the explanation sounded quite satisfactory.
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