We followed him over to the table he indicated and sat down. “Marilyn Winton works here?” Hale asked.

“Yes. She’s the girl in the cream-colored satin.”

“Marvelous figure,” Hale commented appreciatively.

“Uh huh.”

“I wonder if we could arrange to — well, you know, how are we going to get a chance to talk with her?”

“She’ll be over.”

“What makes you think so?”

“I have a hunch.”

Marilyn had been in the game long enough so that when men’s eyes started boring a hole in her back she turned instinctively.

She smiled; then she came over.