“Of course.”

“Recognize her?”

“No,” I said, but I wondered; and at his hint, something stirred in my memory.

“Think red hair, not yellow.”

I couldn’t, to any use; yet now I was sure I had seen her. More than that, I’d known her, and I groped for her name and her right association, in my memory.

“Who is she, Jerry?”

He shook his head. “Not now.”

“Where’d I meet her before?”

He smiled again. “In the underworld, one time you went there.”

“You mean that time you and I went down South State Street to——”