“Guess again,” Mason said, “and you’d better guess right this time.”

“Well, I’d only met him casually. He… he hunted me up.”

“Oh, he did, did he?”

“Well, in a way, yes.”

“When was that?”

“Oh, I don’t know. A week or ten days ago.”

“You didn’t hunt him up?”

“No.”

“Did you hunt up Mrs. Tump?”

“Well… What did you say your name was?”