“You play tennis?” he asked Stone.
“Yes.”
“Why don’t you come over to the club, and we’ll hit some balls.”
He handed Stone a card.
“If I get a moment free,” Stone said.
Tommy, Dino and Stone wandered back toward the yacht club, and as they reached the door, Stone saw Annika Swenson getting into a Mercedes convertible. She waved as she drove by.
“Not bad,” Tommy said.
“Yes,” Stone replied, “and I like the way she waved.”
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TH E T H R E E M E N ordered drinks and were given menus.
“Everything’s good,” Tommy said. “I especially like the beef.”
They ordered.
“Do you have a boat here, Tommy?”
“Yeah, a thirty-foot fiberglass bathtub, just big enough for my wife and me.”
“How is Rosie?” Dino asked.
“Unchanged,” Tommy replied. “Ornery as ever.”
“Tommy,” Stone said, “how are we going to find this Keating guy?”
“Well, I can’t put an APB out on him,” Tommy said. “It’s not like he’s committed a crime.”
“Did you print him while you had him?”
“We didn’t get that far. I ran his name, though, and he has no record.”
“Keating has checked out of his hotel, and the desk clerk said he thought he was living on a boat.”
“Any description of the boat?”
“No.”
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“Good luck on finding it, then.”
“Yeah, we spent most of the day looking in Key West Bight,” Dino said.
“Well, that’s the most likely place for a visiting boat to be, but not the only place. They could be anchored almost anywhere, and there’s also Stock Island, of course.”
“Where’s Stock Island?” Stone asked.