it was nineteen years ago. 'Kathy went on. 'A guy up north named Sol Leander bought the pearls for his wife - just two of them. They cost two hundred grand.'
'How can you wear something as big as a football?' I adked.
'I see you don't know a lot about pearls,' Kathy said.' It's not just how big they are. Well, they're worth more now, and the insurance company is still offering a reward of twenty-five grend for them.'
'Ah, I get it,' I said. 'Somebody stole them.'
'Now you're using your head. It was a mail-car robbery. A Guy hid on the train, got into the mail-car and shot the clerk. Then he took all the valuable mail and got away. But when they caught him laterin Canada tney didn't get any of tge stuff They sent him to Leavenworth prison for for lift, but they never proved he got the pearls.'