‘And who are the three others?’
‘Erminio Dei Cas and me!’
‘You’re therefore telling me that the name “Marais” was duly transcribed by the officer to have passed by the hotel, but was never placed in the archive?’
‘I’m sure of it, Lieutenant Ziani’.
‘Do a search to get the name of that ...’
‘Officer Tullio Storti of the local constabulary in the quarter of Porta Orientale’.
‘You’re no timewaster, are you? Isn’t he something to do with Spreafico?’.
‘Storti has never worked with him; he works a different beat’.
‘I want Storti tracked down and summon him to quarters for tomorrow morning at eight as an administrative matter, so as not to arouse his suspicions’.
‘In the meantime, I’ll start looking through the registry for the entry and departure times of the carriages from th
