High Profile

“And we don’t know what else to do?”

“Precisely,” Jesse said.

“It’s great to train under a master,” Suit said.

“I envy you the experience,” Jesse said.

It was after five p.m. when Alan Hendricks pulled up in a cab and got out and went into Lorrie Weeks’s building. At six fifteen they came out and walked up Perry Street away from the river. Jesse and Suit followed. They went into a restaurant on Greenwich Street. Jesse and Suit waited outside. At nine o’clock they came out of the restaurant, arm in arm, and walked back to the west end of Perry Street.

“Take the picture,” Jesse said.

Suit took several.

They went in together. By midnight Hendricks had not come out. Jesse and Suit went to their hotel.

The next morning they were back outside Lorrie’s building before nine. It was after ten when Hendricks strolled out wearing the same clothes he’d had on last night and walked up Perry Street.

“Stay with him,” Jesse said to Suit. “I assume he’s looking for a cab. If he is, let him go and come back here.”

Jesse leaned on a yellow brick wall, in the sun, and looked at Lorrie’s building. In fifteen minutes, Suit was back. 2 3 4

H I G H P R O F I L E

“Cab uptown,” Suit said.

“Do you know uptown from downtown?” Jesse said.

“No, sir,” Suit said. “But I heard him say ‘uptown’ to the cabbie.”

Jesse nodded.

At quarter to twelve a cab stopped in front of Lorrie’s building and Conrad Lutz got out.

“Aha!” Jesse said.

“Aha?” Suit said.

“It’s chief talk,” Jesse said. “Apprentice detectives aren’t allowed to say aha!”

“Do you suppose he’s going to spend the night, too?”

Suit said.

“We’ll find out,” Jesse said. “Get the pictures.”

Suit used the camera.

“Goddamn,” Suit said. “I stand around here another day, I’m going to take root.”

“I know it feels that way,” Jesse said. “But generally you don’t.”

“I suppose it would be too big a coincidence,” Suit said,

“if they both came here and weren’t visiting Lorrie Weeks.”

“Yes,” Jesse said. “It would.”

Jesse and Suit stood outside, taking turns occasionally to go to a small restaurant two blocks up. Lutz stayed until late afternoon. When he came out, Suit followed him.