I said, “You’ll get a kick out of this apartment. It’s typical.”

“So Mrs. Cool is doing war work. She didn’t tell me that.”

“You didn’t ask her, did you?”

“No.”

I said, “She seldom volunteers information about her business to clients.”

He flashed me a quick look. I kept my face absolutely straight.

“She hasn’t talked with Miss Fenn then?”

I let my face show that I was surprised. “Why, we understood from your telegram that you wanted us to hold off that interview until you came, so you could talk with her.”

“Well-not exactly. You say she’s living in the Gulf-pride Apartments on St. Charles?”

“Yes.”