“I hope nothing’s happened to Reba,” Miss Trillman said.
“You know her?” Graham said.
“I’ve talked with her several times.”
“What about Mandy?”
“I don’t know him. The only man I’ve seen her with, I saw her getting into Mr. Dolarhyde’s van.”
“Mr. Dolarhyde’s van, Miss Trillman? What color is Mr. Dolarhyde’s van?”
“Let’s see. Dark brown, or maybe black.”
“Where does Mr. Dolarhyde work?” Crawford asked.
“He’s production supervisor,” Fisk said.
“Where’s his office?”
“Right down the hall.”
Crawford turned to speak to Graham, but he was already moving.
Mr. Dolarhyde’s office was locked. A passkey from Maintenance worked.
Graham reached in and flipped on the light. He stood still in the doorway while his eyes went over the room. It was extremely neat. No personal items were anywhere in sight. The bookshelf held only technical manuals.
The desk lamp was on the left side of the chair, so he was right-handed. Need a left thumbprint fast off a right-handed man.
“Let’s toss it for a clipboard,” he said to Crawford, behind him in the hall. “He’ll use his left thumb on the clip.”
They had started on the drawers when the desk appointment calendar caught Graham’s eye. He flipped back through the scribbled pages to Saturday, June 28, the date of the Jacobi killings.
The calendar was unmarked on the Thursday and Friday before that weekend.
He flipped forward to the last week in July. The Thursday and Friday were blank. There was a note on Wednesday. It said: “Am 552 3:45-6:15.”
Graham copied the entry. “I want to find out where this flight goes.”
“Let me do it, you go ahead here,” Crawford said. He went to a telephone across the hall.
Graham was looking at a tube of denture adhesive in the bottom desk drawer when Crawford called from the door.
“It goes to Atlanta, Will. Let’s take him out.”
48
Water cold on Reba’s face, running in her hair. Dizzy. Something hard under her, sloping. She turned her head. Wood under her. A cold wet towel wiped her face.
“Are you all right, Reba?” Dolarhyde’s calm voice.
She shied from the sound. “Uhhhh.”
“Breathe deeply.”
A minute passed.
“Do you think you can stand up? Try to stand up.”