“About Dr. Lintig. I’ve just checked back through the records of the medical board. It took me a little while to get the right line into their office, but I did it.”
“What,” I asked, “did you find out?”
“In 1919,” she said, “Dr. Lintig filed a certificate showing that he had changed his name to Charles Loring Alftmont. So they changed their records accordingly, and he’s now practicing at Santa Carlotta — eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist.”
I said, “That’s fine — only you still haven’t told me what you called up about.”
Her voice was sugar-coated. “Listen, Donald, Bertha needs you.”
“What happened?” I asked.
She said, “In a way, Donald, it’s your fault.”
“What is?”
“We’re fired.”
“What do you mean?”