“Of course, I don’t know your methods on this side, but anything that’s usual——”
“I’ll see you at my office. Spike Mullins will show you where it is.”
“Very well. You must forgive this preliminary informal call. We came in more to shelter from the rain than anything.”
“You did, did you?”
Jimmy felt that it behoved him to stand on his dignity. The situation demanded it.
“Why,” he said, with some hauteur, “in the ordinary course of business I should hardly waste time over a small crib like——”
“It’s banks for his,” murmured Spike rapturously. “He eats dem alive. And jools from duchesses.”
“I admit a partiality for jewels and duchesses,” said Jimmy. “And now, as it’s a little late, perhaps we had better—— Ready, Spike? Good night, then. Pleased to have met you.”
“I’ll see you at my office.”
“I may possibly look in. I shall be doing very little work in New York, I fancy. I am here merely on a vacation.”