“What!” exclaimed Cardona. “I just left one of your men.”
“Who?”
“Terry Blake.”
Malloy scratched his head speculatively.
“Terry Blake,” he said. “I thought he was in Italy. What did he look like?”
Cardona described Blake.
“That sounds like Blake,” declared Malloy. “Didn’t know he was back. Funny he hasn’t reported.”
The subject was dropped. Malloy asked to see the Double Z correspondence. Cardona produced it.
That was all Malloy required. After the government man was gone, Cardona wondered.
Funny thing, he thought, that Terry Blake should have come without being assigned on the case. That visit to Farmington’s seemed odd. Malloy had suggested no such visit.