“All right, Miss Palmetter,” he said. “That’s all.”

I fished up my hat from under my chair and stood up.

“Looks like a visit to the Dream Ship,” I said.

Willet put the Scotch and the two glasses away.

“You’d better not tell me about that,” he said. “You’ll be careful, won’t you?”

“You’ll be surprised how careful I will be.”

“She may have gone to Mexico,” he went on doubtfully.

I gave him a little grin, but he didn’t grin back.

“Be seeing you,” I said, and went into the outer office.

A fat, over-dressed woman, with pearls the size of pickled onions around her neck, sat breathing heavily in one of the lounging chairs. She gave me a stony glare as I picked my way past her to the door.