“Do you have any contact information or a forwarding address for him?” I asked urgently.

Mrs.

Gable hesitated briefly before standing up.

“Let me check the old paper directories in the back office.”

She came back a few minutes later holding a small slip of paper with a handwritten phone number.

“Samuel moved out of state shortly after he left his job,” she told me quietly.

“This was the last phone number he left on file with the staff here.”

I quickly saved the number in my cell phone.