Chapter 40 Summary

Graham has just returned from a trip to Detroit where he was trying to establish a connection between Mrs. Leeds's surgery and Mrs. Jacobi's volunteer work at a hospital in Detroit. Graham is unable to make a connection, however. When Graham enters the apartment in Chicago, the phone is ringing, but he cannot answer it before it stops. Graham assumes it was Molly and calls her back. Molly is not able to come to the phone. It is dinnertime.

When the phone rings again while Graham is in the shower, he assumes it is Molly. It is not. It is the Jacobi's lawyer. They were able to find out that Niles fenced most of the property he took out of the Jacobi home. However, they were able to find some home movies the boy could not get rid of. Graham asks that the...