Leverage chuckled. "Go to it, David. You know more about that kid than I ever will--or want to. Ain't suspecting her of being the woman in the taxi, are you?" "Good Lord! no! She hasn't that much on her mind. And if we manage to solve this case, we can thank her. That little tongue of hers wags at both ends--and out of the welter of words that drip from her lips--I've managed to extract more information than from every other source we've tapped. I've been awfully lucky there--" "Don't talk like a simp, David--'tain't luck. That's your way of working. And because there isn't anything flashy about it--you call it luck. Why, you poor fish--there isn't any other man in the country who'd have had the common sense to do what you did--to know that it would be a sensible move." "Some day, Eric," grinned Carroll, "I'm going to throw you down--I'm going to flunk on a case. And then you'll say to my face what you must often have thought--that I'm a lucky, old-maidish detective." "G'wan wid ye! Fishing for compliments--that's what you are." Carroll grew serious again. "I think we're safe in eliminating Evelyn Rogers from our calculations except as a gold mine of information. Which takes us to her friend--Hazel Gresham." "And Garry Gresham. You say he didn't want you to discuss the case with his sister." "They both acted mighty peculiarly," agreed Carroll. "One of them, I'm sure, knows something about that case--has some inside dope on it. And the one who knew has told the other one--the affection between them is something pretty to look at, Leverage." "You think one of them is in on the know?" "Yes, I think so. And I think that their information touches someone pretty close to them. That's obviously why they pleaded so hard with me to call off the investigation." "M-m-m--They're pretty good friends to the Lawrences, aren't they!" "Yes--with Naomi Lawrence, anyway. I don't believe Gerald Lawrence is especially friendly with anyone. But the Greshams and Mrs. Lawrence are pretty intimate." "And you believe that the alibi Miss Rogers established for Hazel Gresham is good?"