I could see the blonde thinking things over, trying to decide how much to tell me.

“Was she?” I insisted.

She tried a counteroffensive. “What did you want with Ringold?”

“I wanted to see him on a business matter.”

“What?”

“Somebody had told me that he could tell me how to beat the Blue Sky Act. I’m a promoter. I had something I wanted to promote.”

“So you went in to see him?”

“Not me. I got the adjoining room.”

“And bored a hole in the door?”

“Yes.”