“Pretty good graft? Looking for some such fake myself. What I wanted to know, though, was about one of your samples in the show case out there.”
“Well?” demanded Frank.
“That wire puzzle.”
“What about it?”
“Where did you run across it?”
Frank did not like the speech nor manner of his visitor.
“Is that particularly any of your business?” he asked.
“Why, you see, just curious about it, that’s all,” stammered Wacker, somewhat taken aback at Frank’s sharp challenge. “Do you own it?”
Frank’s eye flashed with manifest resentment at Wacker’s cool effrontery.
“See here,” he said pretty firmly, “I have no time to waste answering idle and impertinent questions,” and turned away from the door.