“Why,” he said, “this floor is not divided off into offices. Looks as if it had been used for a lodge room. Yes, there is a peep-hole in that door. I’ll knock, anyhow.”
Frank did knock. He heard some fumbling at a dirt-grimed window at one side of the hall. It moved slightly in as if set on hinges.
Then there was dead silence. Again he hammered at the door. A slight snap suddenly sounded. This was caused by the cover to the little circular hole in being shot back.
“What do you want?” sharply demanded the voice of some one behind the hole, invisible for the darkness of the closed in room or entry beyond.
“Is this the United States Mail Order House?” asked Frank.
“The what?”
Frank repeated the magnificent-sounding name.
“Never heard of it.”
“Well, then, is there a Mr. Wacker here?” persisted Frank.
“No. Nobody but a sick old man. Go away.”