He said, “Promise you’ll still respect me in the morning.”
* * * *
But in the morning he made a call to Desmond Richelieu’s private number. He got the director, sounding wide awake and chipper as ever.
Lindsey said, “I’ll take it.”
The director said, “Go home and start packing. Call Mrs. Blomquist for details.”
Richelieu hung up.
A few hours later Lindsey arrived at his house on Laurel Drive. Mother and Gordon Sloane were in Hawaii and Joanie Schorr had kindly brought in a week’s worth of mail and put it on the dining room table.
Before he looked at the mail he checked the telephone answering machine. There were several messages from Marge Tillotson at the US Attorney’s office. He’d have to follow up on the Cookes and ben Zinowicz, but already the Vansittart case seemed like part of
