There was a moment of silence.
“What else can you tell me about Roberta Fenn?” I asked.
Hale said, “I gave Mrs. Cool most of the details while I was on the train.”
“How about close relatives?” I asked.
“She had none.”
I said, “Yet you’re trying to find her to close up an estate?”
Hale put a big hand on my arm in a fatherly gesture. “Now, Lam,” he said, “I thought I’d made myself clear on that.”
“You have,” Bertha said. “Do you want daily reports?”
“I should like them, yes.”
“Where will you be?”