“Old Eli is in a nursing home, ostensibly with Alzheimer’s, though somebody who talked with him at Harry’s funeral says he seemed just fi ne.”
“So you think that Warren locked the old man up to get him out of the way?”
“I don’t think anything, but it’s interesting that you have drawn that conclusion.”
“I still need more.”
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“Then why don’t you conclude that you ought to call the Torrington cops and see what they know about all this? Maybe they would like to get the credit for solving one homicide and preventing another.”
“Dino, you think there’s really something to all this?”
“Dan, when you answered the phone, you spoke the words, ‘Robbery and …’ What was that other word? Try and remember it.”
“Okay, okay, I’ll make some calls.”
“I think you should conclude that you’d better hurry; it might be visiting day at the nursing home.”
“Okay, Dino.”
“I don’t know who that is, but call me at this number and let me know what you find out.” Dino gave him his cell phone number.
“You’re in New York?”
“I’m in Key West.”
“What are you doing in Key West?”
“Loitering.”
“That’s what I would do if I were in Key West,” Dan said.
“It’s one of the things I do best,” Dino said, then he hung up. He turned back to Stone. “Let’s see if that gets him to move his ass.”
“It ought to,” Stone said.
“Now, where the hell do you think Evan has gone?”
“I don’t know, back to his boat?”
“And what’s the name of that boat?”
“I don’t know.”
“You didn’t ask him? You had lunch with the guy, and you didn’t ask him?” Dino slapped Stone on the back of the head.
“I needed that,” Stone said.
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BIL L E GG E R S D R O V E across the Harlem River Bridge and headed north, toward Connecticut. He was going there against his better judgment, but his conscience had been bothering him. Stone had been making a lot of sense, and as far as he could tell, he was the only person who could do anything about this. Harry Keating was dead and Evan Keating had dropped out of sight again, so who else was left?
Two hours later Eggers arrived in Torrington, and he consulted the map his secretary had printed out from the Internet. It took him another fifteen minutes to find the nursing home, out on the east side of town, toward Hartford.