“I don’t know why not.”
“You won’t try to take advantage of me?”
I shrugged my shoulders and said, “The fact that I’m here, and not asking for a shakedown, is your best evidence of that.”
“Yes,” he said, “it is. I’m sorry. I apologize. I apologize to you. Explain the circumstances to Mrs. Cool, will you?”
“Yes, and you want us to go right back to work?”
“Right back to work,” he said. “Wait a minute. I want the address of that young woman who claimed I’d employed her. It’s preposterous. I never heard of such a thing.”
I gave him Evaline Harris’s address.
“Get started right away,” he said.
I said, “All right. Shall we make reports here, Doctor?”
“No, no. Make those reports just as I instructed Mrs. Cool. Make them to Mr. Smith at the address I gave her. Don’t under any circumstances let anyone know where I am or who I am. It would be — disastrous.”