“For a while — I hope. By then I should worry.”
Roberta Fenn came walking directly toward us, “May I intrude for just a moment?” she asked.
Bertha said, “It’s all right. I’m finished.”
Roberta’s eyes were caressing me. She gave me both her hands. “Darling!”
Chapter Twenty-Four
Lieutenant Pellingham came stamping into the office about 12:45 Tuesday. Elsie Brand told me he was out in the other office, and I went out to talk with him.
“I hope you don’t hold any hard feelings, Lam.”
“I don’t if you don’t.”
“You should have told me you were trying to protect Roberta Fenn because you thought she was in danger.”
“Then you’d have taken her into custody and dragged her back to New Orleans.”