CHAPTER TWENTY-ONEPetrus Berry didn’t insist on taking two cabs, but he did insist on their paying off the cabby and sending him on his way, a couple of blocks from their destination. Then they separated. Lindsey walked on to his destination. Berry refused to say where he was going or what he would be doing, but Lindsey suspected that Berry would be up to his old tricks again. Well, not so old, but still.…
Lindsey had called the number Cele Johnston gave him at their first meeting. The voice that answered was neutral and so devoid of characteristics that Lindsey almost took it for a computer-generated signal. No gender, no age, no ethnicity, no emotion.
“A. P. C. Enterprises.”
That was what it said. The ball was in Lindsey’s court. He asked for Alcide Castellini. The voice said that Mr.
