CHAPTER TWENTYIt was after five when I got home. No one was around, and the Bishops had phoned for me to come over for a cocktail when I got back.
“Where are the Colonel and Sergeant Buck, Julius?” I asked.
“ ’Deed, Mis’ Grace, an’ Ah couldn’ say,” Julius said serenely. “A boy come clear out with a telegram fo’ the Colonel, ’stead of phonin’ it, an’ they got in the cah an’ drove off. ’Deed an’ Ah don’ know which way they went.”
It didn’t take very long for me to find out where they’d got to. I saw Colonel Primrose the minute I passed the magnolia trees and came towards the porch. He was there, very much at his ease, and oddly enough the Goulds were there too, all of them except Andy. If it hadn’t been for the haunted look in Lucy Lee’s eyes, and the constant cigarettes she smoked, and G
