“No. I was with somebody.”

“Who?”

“I don’t know. It was a pick-up.”

Rondler looked at me and grinned.

I didn’t say anything.

“Why did you walk out on the New Orleans cops?” Rondler asked me after a while.

“Because I had work to do.”

“What?”

“I wanted to find Roberta Fenn.”

“Why?”