ACTING YOUR INSTRUCTIONS YOUR PARTY (GUY THOMAS) RESIDES THREE FORTY FIVE WEST FORTY FIFTH STREET STOP FLAT NOW OCCUPIED BY MISS BELINDA SAUNDERS CHORUS GIRL STOP MISS SAUNDERS DESCRIBES SELF AS PARTYS FIANCEE STOP AGENT THIRTY SIX ENGAGING MISS SAUNDERS IN CONVERSATION LEARNED YOUR PARTY WIRED MISS SAUNDERS TO BE PREPARED SAIL FOR GRAND TOUR EUROPE SOON STOP WILLIAMS HENRY BREESE SEVILLA BILTMORE HAVANA YOUR PARTY WAS PHONED BY MISS SAUNDERS AND INFORMED SHE WAS READY TO DEPART EUROPE STOP YOUR PARTY SAID DELAY HAD ARISEN STOP MISS SAUNDERS PROVOKED SAID WOULDNT DELAY STOP YOUR PARTY INFORMED HER HE WOULD HAVE LOTS OF MONEY IF SHED WAIT STOP MISS SAUNDERS THREATENED SUE BREACH OF PROMISE ON RUMOUR REACHING NEW YORK YOUR PARTY ABOUT TO MARRY WEALTHY WOMAN STOP WIRING FURTHER WILLIAMS HENRY BREESE SEVILLA BILTMORE HAVANA YOUR PARTY SENT WIRE MISS SAUNDERS BE PREPARED LEAVE IMMEDIATELY STOP WILL MEET HER PARIS STOP WILLIAMS “That’s not all,” continued Rice. “As Mrs. Breese’s business adviser--I’ve been handling all her affairs for months--I receive all cancelled checks from her bank. This morning the National City called me up. I went down to see them. The cashier showed me a check for ten thousand dollars made out to this man and signed presumably by Mrs. Breese. It had come through the mails, with a letter signed by this man, instructing the bank to deposit this money to his account in Paris. Mr. Wilkins--the cashier--questioned the signature. It seemed an obvious forgery to him. I agreed with him. “I took the check and the letter and came here. Unfortunately Mrs. Breese and this young man were out, so I left them in an envelope with a note for Mrs. Breese, and put the envelope on this table. I had several engagements and couldn’t get in touch with Mrs. Breese until after dinner. Then I called her up and asked her if she’d gotten my note. She hadn’t. She knew nothing about it. Then I asked her if she had made out a check for ten thousand dollars to Thomas, and she knew nothing about that! Naturally she was upset and angry. And an hour later I’m called at the American Ministry and told she’s been murdered. There are the facts!” The actor had been striving vainly to interrupt him. Now he burst forth: “It’s a lie--I didn’t forge any check. I don’t know anything about it.” “Then where’s the letter I left?” demanded Rice. “I left it right on this table. You found it and tore it up, didn’t you? Tore up all the evidence! Then, when Mrs. Breese accused you of it, you lost your head and killed her. You didn’t think you’d be found out, did you?”