CHAPTER ELEVEN
After Lieutenant High dropped him off at Oakland Police Headquarters, Lindsey had driven to the Kleiner Mansion and asked Jayjay if he could talk with her after closing. She’d agreed, but first Lindsey asked if he could use the phone. He needed to check up on Mother. And he had another call to make.
When Mother answered the phone she’d been distraught. She’d been watching a historical show on TV and she was terrified at the outbreak of war.
“What war, Mother?” Lindsey tried to slow her down.
“In Poland! They’re invading Poland!”
“Who is?”
“I saw it right there, right on the television. Those horrible Nazis, I saw them. They’re using horses to draw the artillery, and those terrible Stuka airplanes, diving down and dropping bombs on people. Everybody is trying to run awa
