The lawyer raised his eyebrows. “Why, Paul, what’s the idea?”
“You know darn well what the idea is,” Drake said.
“You mean piling so much work on you I kept you up all night?” Mason asked. “Shucks, think of me. I was pulled out of bed around one o’clock in the morning to go out on a wild-goose chase.”
Drake said, “And I suppose you haven’t heard anything at all about the wild goose?”
Mason said, “Spill it. What’s on your mind, Paul?”
Drake said sarcastically, “Oh, no, you don’t know what it’s all about. You haven’t the faintest idea. You wouldn’t have got me in a jam for worlds.”
“What the devil are you talking about, Paul?”
“Why didn’t you telephone me?”
“When?”
“When! When you said you were going to.”