“Go on,” Dail said. “I’m listening.”

“I have reason to believe,” Mason went on, “that it might be possible for your company to get back some twenty thousand dollars of the missing money.”

“You’re representing Moar?” Dail asked.

“No.”

“Whom are you representing?”

“Interested parties,” Mason said.

“Would you mind telling me just who they are?”

“Would it,” Mason inquired, “make any difference in your attitude in the matter?”

“It might,” Dail said.

“May I ask in what way?”