CHAPTER XIVA Crash in Uruguay
The next three days were busy ones for Timuroff. The first order of business, of course, was listening to Reese Guthrie’s tapes, or rather to those of them that Pete and Edstrom thought would be especially interesting to him. Guthrie had delivered the originals, and had assured him that a set of copies was now in one of Ledenthal’s filing cabinets; and Pete, oli duty, had undertaken to do the preliminary scanning, with Edstrom helping whenever possible. It was a fascinating but sordid business. Half the conversations were between Miranda Gardner and Hemmet. Most of the rest—and these were often the more interesting—were between her and a variety of other people, men and women, some of them trapped in debt, others whom she controlled by other means, and a few
