The Eleventh Hour (1950)
“A girl, carrying a suitcase and an overnight bag, came in. “Thank you,” she said frigidly to the detective. Then she looked up and saw Conway descending the stairs. She put down the bags and smiled up at him. “Hello, Arthur,” she said.Bauer looked at Conway, and Conway looked from the girl to the detective and back again. He had never seen her before in his life. What kind of trick is this? he wondered.“Don’t recognize me, do you?” she said. He shook his head, completely bewildered.“I’m Betty.”...It was a moment before the name registered. “Helen’s sister?” he finally said.“Half-sister.”“You didn’t tell me she had a sister,” Bauer said.“Half-sister,” Betty corrected. “And I must say you haven’t been very polite.”Conway tried to pull himself out of the stunned inertia produced by the announcement of her identity. “This is Detective Sergeant Bauer,” he said.She gave Bauer the briefest of looks, and he acknowledged the introduction with an unintelligible mutter.“Surprised to see me?”MoreLess
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