They got out and ascended in an elevator to a corridor where there were several doors marked with Sallet's name. The lawyer unlocked the furthest of these doors and pushed Peewee ahead of him into a small, carpeted private office. Peewee grew tense with resentment as he recognized his father awaiting them within.
"Had there been anyone at the farm?" Markyn asked of Sallet.
"They'd noticed no one."
The question confirmed Peewee's idea that it was most probably Beman who had discovered where he was, and he wondered what more than merely discovering Beman had done.
"Would you mind leaving us alone?" Markyn said to the lawyer.
Sallet went into the next office and closed the door, and Peewee surveyed his father antagonistically. It seemed to him that his father appeared more than usually troubled.
"Sit down."
Peewee drew himself up onto the nearest chair. His father paced up and down in front of him.
