That’s an answering service Garvin has when you call and a voice answers stating it’s a tape recording, that you will have thirty seconds after the voice ceases talking to transmit any message you may wish, that the message will be recorded on the tape so it can be played back when the subscriber returns to answer the telephone personally.”
“I tried calling that number,” Mason said, “and got the same message.”
“You did?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“This afternoon after we had inventoried the contents of your purse.”
“But I can’t understand it,” she said! There appeared to be nobody to meet him, and his first call was made to the Barclays Bank counter to change money?