Larry Davis was sitting at his office going over and over the evidence. He knew that his client was guilty of nothing, but being married to a kidnapper. She loved the little girl Sally and was sad that she had not been able to take her in when her parents had died. She had told him how her husband Steve had put his foot down. "I took in your two boys and agreed to help raise them when we got married. I am not going to take a little girl in now. It is too much for me. I want children of my own." he had told her.
But then who would have had the motive and the reason to kill the two men? He just knew that they were missing something. This Martin boy, he was the key to the puzzle of that he was now positive. It was time for him to go up to the town himself. He thought of going up there in the morning, but decided to go up to the town right then and there. He went out to his car and headed out to the town where the murder had happened.
When Perry Mason got home everything was quiet. As he went to be bedroom Della was awake reading. She knew that something was not right with the case. They were too close to everything. Mary was not the murderer she had no reason to kill her husband or the gardener.
Della looked at her husband and said "Mary is innocent isn't she?"
Perry kissed his wife on the forehead and said "Yes. There is only one person that could be the murderer. I am working with Larry Davis and in the morning we are applying for another court hearing. We will need to get subpoenas out and from the suspects, we will find the murder. I promise you."
Larry Davis arrived in town just about midnight and headed to the local bar. There he met with the bartender Everyone in the bar was talking about the murder and the two men. That was when Larry heard the two men talking about Larry Burns and his wife. It seems that his wife was well known at the bar. She was seen with Barry Martin quite frequently.
This was the type of thing that Larry Davis enjoyed learning. He sat at the bar and listened intently to the talk but heard nothing more that was very interesting. Everyone felt sorry for the daughter of Nora and Bob. They were such a good family. He heard that over and over and thought of the little girl.
Now, he wanted to find out more about Larry Burns wife. She was a suspect certainly. Did she have the time to commit the murder? But Sally said it was a man's voice that she heard. Also, Sally did not know the man. She would have known Barry Martin certainly. It had to be someone that Sally didn't recognize. This person was the murderer.
This presented a problem for Larry and Perry. Both men knew that there had been a man at the cabin that Sally did not know. This man was arguing with Steve and Larry. It was not Jim Burns or Barry Martin. Sally knew both men. So who could it be?
Meanwhile Paul Drake had been thinking over and over who could have been the man that Sally had seen at the cabin that day. The only way for them to find out was to ask Sally. She might be able to identify the man from a photo.
It hit Paul like a bolt of lightening. He thought of the time several months ago when Larry had not been able to do the Mason's lawn that day. Cameron Daley had come by the house. He was Larry's boss . He had done the yard that day. Sally had been at her Aunt Michelle's for the weekend and had not seen him. He was driving a black car. He needed to find out who was driving the white Chevrolet.
Now Paul had two people that he had to really look a little harder into. He wanted to find out about the white Chevrolet and the man named Cameron Daley. He thought for a moment and gave Perry a call. Perry was up and answered the phone right away.
"You keep looking Paul. You are right about that man Cameron. Sally would not have known him. Get a picture of him and I will show it to you.
Meanwhile Larry Davis decided that he was going to go up to the cabin and see if he could see anything. It was very late and he was tired. As he pulled into the driveway of the house, he could see that someone was in the house. He knocked on the door and was met by a gun. He did not know the man that was standing at the door, but the man knew him.
"Well, Mr. Davis you had to stick your nose into something that you had no business getting into. I am going to have to do something with you." With that he forced Larry to get into the trunk of the car. The man tied his hands and feet and shut the trunk lid. As the car went down the long hill Larry was working very hard to get loose from the ties. He found a box cutter of all things in the trunk and worked on his hands feverishly.
He was still working on the ropes when the car stopped. As the man opened the trunk lid Larry kicked him with every bit of strength that he could muster. He yanked as hard as he could and the ties to his hands released. With the lightening speed of the college boxing champ the man was down. Larry called the police and reported the kidnapping.
The police came and were surprised to find the man that had been caught was the same man who had been in town a few weeks ago. He had been looking into purchasing some property. His name was Cameron Daley.
