“Only if it means there’s been some electrical equipment installed.”

“That’s the way I figured it. It’d be a swell hide-out for a coining plant, wouldn’t it?”

“All right,” I said. “What else?”

“Don’t rush us,” Davis said, grinning. “This dick ain’t been on the job a couple of days. He’s turned up something on Gomez if he interests you.”

“Gomez?” I said, frowning. “I don’t know where I can fit him in.”

“Well, let’s skip Gomez then.”

“What did he find out?”

“Gomez runs human freight into Cuba.”

I studied my finger-nails. “Go on,” I said.

“That’s it. He does it in a big way. He has three boats, a . bunch of boys working for him, and he gets a thousand dollars a head.”