“You don’t say! Maybe we can learn a fact or two from them.”
Jerry parked the car at the curb and sprang out. Penny saw him walk over to the men, introduce himself and show his press credentials. She was too far away to hear the conversation.
In a few minutes Jerry returned to the car looking none too elated.
“You didn’t learn anything, did you?” Penny inquired as they drove on again.
“Not very much. Government men never will talk. But they did admit they were here trying to locate James Kippenberg.”
“Then they think he is in the locality.”
“They had an idea he would show up at his daughter’s wedding. But it didn’t turn out that way.”
“Did you say anything to them about Grant Atherwald’s disappearance?”
“Yes, but they wouldn’t discuss it. They said they had nothing to do with the case.”
Penny lapsed into reflective silence as the car went on toward Andover. Mentally she sorted over the evidence which she had gathered that day, trying to fit it into a definite pattern.