Della pays a cabbie $20 to wait for them. Perry and Della fly to Vegas, arriving at the station just ahead of the train. Back in L.A., Paul tells Perry that his man in Las Vegas has spotted Janice at the railroad station, waiting for the train from L.A. It was dark, so what he saw was more like a shadow, but his attention was drawn because she was a "pretty young thing". Right after he left around 9 PM, Cole happened to look out his office window and saw not only Morley walking to his car, but a woman following him. Paul visits Cole, who says he and Morley developed a subdivision near Palmdale that didn't do well, so they closed it a year ago. Morley left for Bakersfield at 3 PM to see former partner Cole Troy (Our Miss Brooks' Robert Rockwell). She didn't ask him about it, because Morley divorced his first wife for being too nosy and possessive. Perry visits Morley's wife Agnes ( Barbara Lawrence), who says she also saw the envelope and note from Vidal in Morley's coat pocket.
Law student and Perry's gopher David Gideon ( Karl Held) arrives and says that he couldn't find Janice at home or her office. Perry and Paul go to Union Station and find that the locker is now empty, despite Paul mentioning that no one has picked up the letter for Vidal. They do all this with no problem, but the next day Janice calls Perry and says Morley has vanished. Perry has Janice and Della record the serial numbers of some of the bills, then both take the suitcase to a locker at Union Station, then mail the locker key to Vidal, as Morley had instructed Janice. It's full of $20 bills - Della estimates the total at around $100,000. Perry takes a $1 retainer from her and has her open it. Janice thinks her boss is being blackmailed and asks Perry if they can look in the suitcase, which she bought for Morley and therefore has the spare key. Failure will be fatal." There's also an envelope with the return address A. One day, Janice comes to Perry's office bearing a suitcase and a note she found, formed from cut-and-pasted printed words: "Get money. Neise) has been busy dictating to his secretary Janice Wainwright ( Elaine Devry) letters to stockholders, requesting their support in a struggle for control of the company.
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