"He won't talk," said an admiral.
"Who do you work for?" asked another.
"I used to work for Starr & Son, but they fired me three weeks ago."
"I mean, what country?"
"I don't work for anybody!"
The Secretary of Defense looked up at the FBI man.
"I want everything on this man—everything! He has to be investigated as no other man has ever been. If possible, we want to know what this man has been doing every second of his life ever since he was born!"
The FBI man nodded. "I'll have to check with the Chief, of course, but I'm sure we can put every man in the Bureau on this job."
The Secretary nodded. "A few kidnap cases and things like that will have to wait, but that's nothing compared to this."
The FBI man left, and the other men began grilling Phil Merriwether again. It went on for hours.