That was about the most useless two hours we ever spent with them. Wolfe’s idea was to have them talk about everyone they had seen, in the slim hope of our getting at least a glimmer of some kind of a hint.No. Nothing.If you are inclined to quit because I seem to be getting nowhere, no wonder. I’m sorry, but in these reports I don’t put in stunts to jazz it up, I just report. Of course I can leave things out, and I do. I’ll skip that two-hour Sunday conference, except for one little item. Orrie said that Dennis Copes didn’t have a secretary, and the girl in the stenographer pool who often took stuff for him was a stuck-up bitch, and he added, “Of course Archie would have had her holding hands.” He can’t quite ditch the idea that he should have my job. I admit there is one little detail of detective work that he can do better than I can, but he doesn’t know what it is so I won’t name it. They were told to go back in the morning and try some more. The theory was that somebody there must know something, which seemed reasonable.The only thing that happened that day worth reporting was that Lily Rowan and I, at Shea Stadium, watched the Mets take the Cardinals, 7 to 3.At ten o’clock Monday morning I sent a messenger to the CAN building with a white cardboard box addressed to Miss Helen Lugos.
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