"Have you considered the possibility that the police have the right of it?"
"You mean, that the girl's absurd tale may be true?"
"Yes. Are you keeping that in mind-as a possibility, I mean?"
"If I were I shouldn't—" Robert began angrily, and then laughed. "Come down and see them," he said.
"I come, I come," Kevin assured him, and hung up.
Robert called the garage, and when Bill answered asked if Stanley was still there.
"It's a wonder you can't hear him from where you are," Bill said.
"What's wrong?"
"We've just been rescuing that bay pony of Matt Ellis's from our inspection pit. Did you want Stan?"
"Not to speak to. Would you be very kind and ask him to pick up a note for Mrs. Sharpe on his way past tonight?"