“I can ask her questions, can’t I?”
“No.”
I said, “I don’t think there was anything published in the Las Vegas newspapers. The Los Angeles papers didn’t give it a big play. The man she was to marry wasn’t prominent enough to make it a subject of general interest. It was just another disappearance.”
“Well, she says she doesn’t know anything about it.”
“Except what she read in the papers,” I pointed out. Pug’s scowl creased his forehead. “Listen, guy, you’ve gone far enough, see?”
I said, “I don’t see.”
“Well, maybe something will happen to improve your eyesight.”
I said, “It costs money to get me working.”
“What’s that got to do with it?”
“It means that the people who have hired my agency to find Corla Burke are willing to spend money.”