He said, “That absolutely is not true. It’s a case of mistaken identity. I must have a double.”

Rondler played tunes with his fingers.

“What happened up there?” he asked me.

“Where?”

“Up in Roberta’s Fenn’s apartment when Hale went up and saw Nostrander?”

“I don’t know. Hale is the only one who knows. You’ll have to get him to tell you.”

“I tell you I was never up there,” Hale said.

Rondler asked Edna, “How did you happen to get in touch with Roberta Fenn?”

“I put an ad in the paper for her.”

“In a Los Angeles paper?”