rake settled down behind the wheel and they headed toward the rush of downtown traffic.
"Don't kill me with the suspense," he said. "What's Lardner been up to that's so startling?"
"Exploring," Puffy said dryly.
"An expedition to the city's slums?" Drake queried.
"No!" Puffy crossed his legs comfortably and scratching a match on the bottom of his shoe, touched the flame to his cigarette. "I had to go to the Explorer's Club to get the dope on him. Lardner has been spending a lot of time in the Baker Lake district just east of Hudson Bay in Canada."
Drake's foot released its pressure on the gas pedal. "Thought that country was pretty well explored years ago," he said mildly. "Nothing much but snow and ice up there, is there?"
"And maybe diamonds," Puffy said. "At least that's what Lardner and some of the boys at the Explorer's Club think."
Drake's interest was increasing.