“I want you to give me some information.”

“Mr. Carter, I have always declared that if I could ever do you a favor for what you did for me I would do it.”

“Now is your chance.”

“What do you want to know?”

“Are you acquainted with a man named Dick Darwin?”

“Yes—why——”

“You have called on him a number of times?”

“Yes.”

“Where?”

“He has a room in the Studio Building, at the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Broadway.”