“Who are you?”
“Never mind who I am.”
“I’ll take in your card.”
“No card,” said Nick tersely.
“Your name, then?”
“Nor any name.”
“But——”
“Merely tell the chief that his friend from New York is here.”
The expression in the eyes of the irritated clerk lost none of its searching interest, yet they now took on a rather different light, as if he had been suddenly hit with an idea. Yet he still frowned slightly and said:
“If you object to having your name mentioned——”