CHAPTER TEN
It had been a week now since Roberta Colby had left town and Tony Marsh missed her more than ever. He had spent a bad night after that scene with Earl Lord in which Roberta's promotion manager had told him that weird story about Roberta and that he, Earl, had twice been inimate with Roberta in her office after hours. At first he tried to tell himself that the whole thing was ridiculous, a figment of the other man's vile imagination. Yet the more he mulled it, the more obvious it became that Earl must have been telling the truth. Nobody could concoct such a fey story about a woman. In the first place, a man like Earl wouldn't have the imagination. Even now, it still was a little hard for Tony to believe.
In the past week, Tony Marsh had told himself that he would have to fo
