Improvising
tweezers from a pipe-cleaner, he picked this up and looked at it. It had
been typewritten:
4850:
English Screw-Barrel F/L Pocket Pistol. _Queen Anne type, side
hammer with pan attached to barrel, steel barrel and frame. Marked:
Wilson, Minories, London. Silver masque butt-cap, hallmarked for 1723.
4-1/2" barrel; 9-1/4" O.A.; cal. abt .44. Taken in trade, 3/21/'38, from
V. Sparling, for Kentuck #2538, along with 4851, 4852, 4853. App. cost,
RLss; Replacement, do. NLss, OSss, LSss._
To this had been added, in pen:
_Sold, R. Kingsley, St. Louis, Mo., Mail order, 12/20/'42, OSss._
Rand laid the card on the cocktail-table, along with the drinking
equipment. At least, he knew what had gone into the fire: Arnold Rivers's
card-index purchase and sales record. He doubted very strongly if that
would have been burned while its owner was still alive. Going over to the
desk, he checked; the drawer from which he had seen Cecil Gillis get the
card for the Leech & Rigdon had been cleaned out.
Picking up the phone in an awkward, unnatural manner, he used a pencil
from his pocket to dial a number with which he was familiar, a number
that meant the same thing on any telephone exchange in the state.
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