28 Hearts of Sand by Jane Haddam

Author:Jane Haddam [Haddam, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

FIVE

1

Gregor Demarkian had finally made up his mind about what he had to do next at about midnight. He started by putting in a call to Juan to pick him up at six o’clock in the morning. That much English, Juan seemed to understand. Then Gregor had looked up the address he wanted and gone in search of Darlee Corn and a printer.

As it turned out, Darlee Corn did have a printer, although she made it clear that she didn’t usually make it available to guests.

Gregor took two copies of what he would need in the morning and headed off to bed. He set his alarm clock for four. He packed his attaché case with everything he could imagine he might need. Then he went to bed and tried to sleep against the drumming insistence in his mind that everybody who was ever involved in this case had been something worse than idiotic.

He got up at four o’clock in the morning and showered and shaved. He found the best suit Bennis had ever given him, then went down to the front door to wait for Juan. Darlee Corn was up and about, but nobody else seemed to be. The large dining room was empty, although hot serving stations were set up on a long table at the side. He grabbed a coffee in a paper cup.

Juan parked the car at the curb. Gregor got into it and handed over one copy of the detailed directions he had pulled off Google.

Juan took his time getting through Alwych, so that by the time they reached I-95 it was full-on rush hour, but he followed the directions he’d been given right to the quarter mile. Gregor began to relax. Somewhere around Greenwich, he decided he could stop monitoring their progress. He opened his attaché case and began going over what he had.

It was useless to tell himself that he had no more information than anybody else had had in all these years. The issue was never what you had, but how you interpreted it. He had gone over and over everything in everybody’s set of notes, and he had ended with Sherlock Holmes. When you’ve eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, is the truth.

Gregor knew where Chapin Waring had been, and who had helped her stay out of sight, because there was only one possible answer. There was only one person who would have run interference for her all those years, and there was only one person who would have gone back to the house on Beach Drive after she was dead and let the security alarm ring.

They got to a neighborhood of row houses, each one of them two stories tall. The place reminded Gregor of the old Archie Bunker television show, except that the population was obviously neither white nor working class. It might be actually African, rather than African-American. It might be Caribbean. The people on the street looked relaxed and pleased with themselves. The corner markets were full of brightly colored vegetables.

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