“I don’t know,” Mason told him.
Sheriff Barnes said, “We’d better go some place where we can talk it over.”
“My office is within a couple of blocks,” Mason pointed out.
“And the Drake Detective Agency is in the same building, isn’t it?” Sprague inquired.
“Yes.”
“You were on your way there?” Sprague asked.
“Does it,” Mason inquired, “make any particular difference?”
“I think it does,” Sprague told him.
“Well, of course,” Mason remarked, “I have no means of knowing just what you have in mind.”
“That isn’t answering my question,” Sprague said.