"'They[Sternwoods] seem to be a family things happen to. A big Buick belonging to one of them is washing about in the surf off Lido fish pier.'...Ohls cocked his chin at me and said:'Know him?' 'Sure. The Sternwood chauffer. I saw him dusting that very car out there yesterday.' "I don't want to crowd you, Marlowe. Just tell me, did the job have anything to do with him?' 'No. I don't even know his name.' 'Owen Taylor. How do I know? Funny about that. About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap. It seems he run Sternwood's hotch daughter, the younger one, off to Yuma...She[Vivian] says the kid meant to marry her sister and wanted to."(pg 43,49-59) This seems to be a useless piece of information that was only presented to Marlowe because the name "Sternwood" came up. Nonetheless, Marlowe patiently takes it all in and files it away. Marlowe's connection, namely Bernie Ohls, has provided him with another scattered dot on his canvas. The dot makes no sense and reveals no pattern-it seems to have no relevance at all. Yet dots tend to that in the beginning, before you get enough to connect them for your picture.