his move.
She had arrived just after sunset, and he waited two hours more, until well after full dark. Then he got out of the Ford, entered the hotel through the bar, went from there to the lobby, and stood in a corner of the lobby until he was sure there was no one in it who was going to be trouble. Then he went over to the pay phones, stepped into one, and called the hotel. He watched through the glass as the clerk answered across the way, and when he asked for Claire Carroll there was no unusual reaction. As far as he could see, no signal was given to anybody.
Claire came on almost immediately, and Parker said, “What room?”
“Thirteen oh four,” she said.
He hung up, left the booth, and went straight to the elevators. The place was clean, he was sure of that now. He rode up to the thirteenth floor and knocked on her door.
The end.
