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5. Farrell is furious about the kidnapping, orders an out-of-town associate to intercept the truck — which he does only too well! His car collides with the truck in a terrific crash and the associate is burned to death. But Stan's body is pulled from the flaming wreckage just in time.
name of Jewel MacLain had already identified the hospital patient as Jeff Mercer, her fiance. Jewel had flatly refused to allow Terry access to the room, or even permission to speak with her fiance by telephone. Following this disheartening news had come the unexpected — the truly unexpected — visit from Farrell. Terry knew deep down that she couldn't prove any of her suspicions about Farrell, could hardly muster arguments against his logical, plausible explanation of why he was determined to find Stan. But, somehow, she couldn't, wouldn't let herself believe that all Hanson Farrell had told her and Mother Burton could be true. . . . Terry was grateful that she had been able to maintain at least an outward calm as Farrell told about learning of a fight at the Eighth Street Lonely Hearts Club in which Jewel MacLain's fiance, Mercer, had been slugged and after which Stan had grabbed a car to follow Mercer in the truck. Farrell had finished his story by stating that it was his belief that a man who had been buried in Potter's Field, dead from the accident involving the truck, was undoubtedly Stan. . . . Terry's instinct, Terry's hope and belief would not let her believe any such thing and with all the strength she could command she would not
6. Stan recovers from the accident — and slugging — but cannot remember who he is. So Farrell arranges to have his confederates identify Stan as a man named Mercer!
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