‘He’ll be all right,’ Purvis said. ‘Be some time before he gets around again, but he’s not in danger.’
‘That’s swell,’ Dal as said sarcastically. ‘Just a fractured skull. Nothing worse than a slight headache.
Baird again, eh?’
‘I guess so. A man answering to Rico’s description used the telephone in a café in Brentwood around two o’clock. A little while later MacAdam was found about a couple of hundred yards from the café. At least we now know they’re heading for Red River. There’s an airfield at Lincoln Falls. They could get a plane to Shreveport from there.’
Dallas got slowly to his feet.
‘I’d better get over to Kile’s place. If we let him slip through our fingers, we’re sunk.’
‘Rico could have been phoning Kile,’ Purvis said thoughtfully. ‘Looks as if they’re on their way to get Hater out.’
‘I can’t imagine they’re going to Red River to look at the alligators,’ Dal as said sarcastical y. ‘I’m glad I haven’t a wife and children. This job’s get ing dangerous.’
Purvis saw him to the door, and then returned to his study. He listened to Dallas’s car start up. He remained standing, his face expressionless, his eyes thoughtful long after the sound of Dallas’s car had died away.