"But by the time you went to look for him, he had disappeared."
"That's the way it was."
"Now tell me—why did you bring it here? Why didn't you turn it in to the management so the man could come back and claim it?"
"Well, sir, it was like this. I had a drink or two and I was wondering all the time what was in that portfolio. So finally I took a peek and—"
"And what you saw decided you to bring it here to us."
"That's right. I saw—"
"Don't tell me what you saw. Give me your name and address and don't say anything about this. You understand that we're grateful to you for thinking of us, but we'd rather you said nothing."
"Mum's the word," the little clerk assured him, full of vast importance.
The FBI phoned Dr. Ambrose Amberly, Smithsonian expert on paleontology.
"We've got something, Doctor, that we'd like you to have a look at. A lot of movie film."