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"All right, see, what happened . . . what happened . . ."
"Calm down, Loretta. Tell me."
"See, after you left last night I started to bring some papers into your office and I heard him on the phone."
"Who was he talking to?"
"I don't know. But I looked inside and saw that he was using his cell phone, not the office phone, like he usually does. I figured he used that phone so we wouldn't have a record of who he called."
"Let's not jump to conclusions. What did he say?" Sandra May asked.
"He said he was pretty close to finding everything. But it was going to be a problem to get away with it."
" 'Get away with it.' He said that?"
"Yes, ma'am. Right, right, right. Then he said some stock or something was all held by the company, not by 'her personally.' And that could be a problem. Those were his words."
"Then what?"
"Oh, then I kind of bumped into the door and he heard and hung up real quick. Seemed to me, at any rate."
"That doesn't mean he's going to rob us," Sandra May said. " 'Get away with it.' Maybe that just means get the money out of the foreign companies. Or maybe he's talking about something else altogether."
"Sure, maybe it does, Mrs. DuMont. But he was acting like a spooked squirrel when I came into the room." Then Loretta brushed one of her long, purple nails across her chin. "How well do you know him?"
"Not well. . . . Are you thinking that he somehow arranged this whole thing?" Sandra May shook her head. "Couldn't be. I called him to help us out."
"But how did you find him?"
Sandra May grew quiet. Then she said, "He met me . . . Well, he picked me up. Sort of. At the Pine Creek Club."
"And he told you he was in business."
She nodded.
