XI“You’re forgetting Mr. Brent,” I said. “He’s no fool.”
He smiled and shook his head at the same time. “You aren’t forgetting something, are you? It’s perfectly possible Allerdyce did know the Brent boys, and Vair got hold of him for just that reason? I take it there was an Allerdyce in their lives. This could be his name. He could have been going under a false name when Ginny and the night clerk knew him. He seems to be sure of himself, and he did know those details—about the cocktail and the flowers. You say he tutored the Brent boys?”
“He said he tutored Rufie, at M. I. T. Rufie was a whizz in math but a wash-out in English. He helped him squeeze through with a D minus.”
“He said that?”
I nodded. As the Latham boys settled for D minuses in English more than once, as I remembered, t
