Lao swore fervently.
"Wait a minute," he cried. "Nuyork? Hold it just a minute, will you?"
He raced up the ramp to his second floor bedroom, fumbled through his dresser drawer until he found his contract and ran back downstairs with it. He had the operator check the name of every Colorvue Publicity official who had signed the contract. None was listed.
"I know there's a Colorvue Publicity!" he shouted desperately. "Get me the Business Practices Agency."
"Just a moment, sir."
A man's voice answered at the Business Practices Agency. It took him several minutes to check the files in compliance with Lao's request for information.
"We have no such firm listed in our records," he said at last.
"Dammit, I know you do!" exclaimed Lao. "You told me Colorvue Publicity had a Double-A2 rating when I checked with you, not four months ago."
"Was the request for a rating by letter or by telephone, sir?"