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finally settled for oclock,
    and I called Rackell at his office and confirmed it.
    Henry Jameson Heath was on the front page of the Gazette again that morning, not in connection with homicide.
    Once more he had refused to disclose the names of contributors to the fund for bail for the indicted Communists and apparently he was going to stick to it no matter how much contempt he rolled up. The days installment on the Rackell murder was on page seven, and there wasnt enough meat in it to feed a cricket.
    As for me, after an hour at the phone, locating Saul Panzer and Fred Durkin and Orrie Cather and passing them the word, I might as well have gone to the ball game. Wolfe had given me plenty of instructions, but I couldnt act on them until and unless the clients agreed to string along.
    Mrs. Rackell arrived first, at six on the dot. A minute later Wolfe came down from the plant rooms, and she started in on him. She had the idea that he was responsible for Fifi Goheens slanderous lie about her dead nephew, since it had been uttered in his office, and what did he propose to do about it'Why didnt he have her arrested'Wolfe controlled himself fairly well, but his tone was beginning to get sharp when the doorbell rang and I beat it to the front to let Rackell in. He jogged past me to the office on his short legs, nodded at Wolfe,
    kissed his wife on the cheek, dropped onto a chair, wiped his long narrow face with a handkerchief, and asked wearily, What is it'Did you get anywhere with them'
    No. Wolfe was short. Not to any conclusion.
    Whats this important question'
    Its blunt and simple. I need to know whether you want the truth enough to pay for it, and if so how much.
    Rackell looked at his wife. Whats he talking about'
    We havent discussed it, Wolfe told him. Weve been considering a point your wife raised, which I regard as frivolous. This question of mine - perhaps I should call it a suggestion. I have one to offer.
    What'
    First Ill give you the basis for it. Wolfe leaned back and half closed his eyes. You heard me tell those five people yesterday why it is assumed that one of them substituted the pills.
    On that assumption, after further talk with them, another: that it is highly improbable that the substitution could have been made, under the circumstances as lied, entirely unobserved. It would have required a ace of remarkable dexterity and uncommon luck, and not accept such a coincidence except on weighty evidence. So, assuming that the substitution was made in the it, I also assume,
    for a test at least, that one of them saw it and knows who did it. In short,
    that there was a eyewitness to the murder.
    Rackells mournful face did not light up with interest. His were puckered,
    making the droop at the corners more iced. That may be, he conceded, but what good I it do if he wont talk'
    I propose to make him talk. Or her.
    How'
    Wolfe rubbed his chin with a thumb and forefinger. His moved to Mrs. Rackell and back to the husband. This kind of thing, he said, requires delicacy,
    discretion, and __ice. Ill put it this way. I will not conspire to get a man punished for a crime he did not commit. It is true that all five those people may be Communists and therefore enemies this country, but that does not justify framing one of them for murder. My purpose is clear and innocent - to ex the real murderer and bring him to account; and I __suga devious method only because no other seems likely to ___. Evidently the police, after five days on it, are up a ___, and so is the FBI - if it is engaged, and you think it is. I want to earn my fee, and I wouldnt mind the kudos.
    Rackell was frowning. I still dont know exactly what youre suggesting.
    I know it; Ive been long-winded. I didnt want you to misunderstand. Wolfe came forward in his chair and put his on the desk. The eyewitness is obviously reluctant, suggest that you consent to provide twenty thousand dollars, to be paid only if my method succeeds. That will cover __tty fee for the