I had an impulse to go take a look at the bush where I had found Rony, which looked much closer to the drive than it had seemed last night, but decided that might start a real quarrel, and I didn’t want to make enemies. The executive was glaring at me. I grinned at him as a friend and headed back up the drive.
As I mounted the three steps to the wide front terrace a State employee in uniform stepped toward me.
“Your name Goodwin?”
I admitted it.
He jerked his head sideways. “You’re wanted inside.”
I entered and crossed the vestibule to the reception hall. Madeline, passing through, saw me and stopped.
“Your boss wants you.”
“The worm. Where, upstairs?”
“No, the library. They sent for him and they want you too.”
I went to the library.