“Her brother’s an engineer out at Boulder Dam.”

She shook her head. “I don’t know her.”

“Who,” I asked, “was the redheaded girl with the bunny nose that you were chumming around with at the Cactus Patch?”

“I don’t know whom you mean.”

“Don’t know anyone like that?”

“No. I may have stopped and passed the time of day with someone, but I haven’t any friend who answers that description. How old?”

“Oh, twenty-three or twenty-four.”

She shook her head.

I said, “Well, get ready to go. We may leave in a hurry.”

“Okay.”