"No," said Carroll regretfully. "They seem to have a lot of friends. Always stopping by, but I can't help 'em any."
#So they moved so fast that they couldn't even change their Highway Sign?# I thought worriedly.
Farrow nodded at me almost imperceptibly. Then she said to Carroll, "Well, we won't keep you. Too bad the Mannheims moved, without leaving an address."
"Yeah," he said with obvious semi-interest. He eyed his half-plowed field and Farrow started her car.
We started off and he turned to go back to his work. "Anything?" I asked.
"No," she said, but it was a very puzzled voice. "Nothing that I can put a finger on."
"But what?"
"I don't know much about real estate deals," she said. "I suppose that one family could move out and another family move in just in this short a time."
"Usually they don't let farmlands lie fallow," I pointed out. "If there's anything off color here, it's the fact that they changed their residence without changing the Highway sign."
"Unless," I suggested brightly, "this is the coincidence. Maybe this sign is really one that got busted."