Stone looked up and down Park. “Nope.”
“Which way was he headed?”
“North to south. He may have turned a comer toward Madison a block down. I wasn’t really paying attention. Why are you interested in him?”
“Because I think you just met Teddy Fay.”
Stone blinked. “You’re kidding.”
“No, I’m not.” Holly was on the phone. “It’s Holly Barker; just had a Teddy sighting in front of my building; he was headed south on Park, west side of the street. Right.” She hung up the phone. “Damn,” she said, “and I had the team pulled last night.”
“Team?”
“The team that’s been following me, trying to get a shot at Teddy.”
“You’re planning to shoot him?”
“No, I mean a shot at capturing him. We think he may live or work in the neighborhood. What was he wearing?”
“A tweed overcoat and one of those Irish tweed hats with the brim turned down all the way around; sunglasses.”
“Did he speak to you?”
“After he spoke to Daisy and petted her, he said she was very popular in the neighborhood. Then he said good morning and continued on his way.”
Holly waved Stone to a seat and sat down in front of her bacon and eggs. She stared into the plate. “He said Daisy was very popular in the neighborhood?”
“Yes.”
“Then he must live in the neighborhood.”
LANCE LISTENED TO HER REPORT quietly and waited until she had finished before he spoke. “Someone else was walking Daisy this morning?”
“A friend,” she said.
Lance nodded. “And you pulled the team last night. Of course.”
“Of course, what?”
“Of course Teddy would turn up just when the team wasn’t there. He knows Daisy?”
“Yes, the first time I saw him outside the building, he petted her and asked her name.”
“Maybe Teddy is following you,” Lance said. “Why else would he be camped outside your building?”
“I don’t think he was camped,” Holly said. “I really think he lives in the neighborhood.”
“Or works in the neighborhood.”
“There aren’t any workshops on Park Avenue,” she said.
“Holly, I want you to put some people on visiting all the fealty firms in the neighborhoods that handle rentals, especially short-term rentals, a year or less. Find out if anyone answering Teddy’s description has rented something on Park Avenue or in the immediate environs during the past month. Don’t go yourself; I don’t want Teddy to see you in a real estate office. And tell them to go singly, not in pairs, and use FBI agents. They have a more instant authority with the general public than we do.”
“I’ll get right on it,” Holly said, and returned to her office.
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