"Oh, then he's been here before?" Joe asked.
"Oh, yes, often. I don't know what his business is, but I think, he is a sort of stock and bond dealer."
"More like a stock and bond swindler," thought Joe.
"Mr. Sanford will see you in a few minutes," the bellboy reported to Joe, having come back from taking up our hero's card. "There's a lady in the office with him now."
"A young lady?" Joe asked.
"Yes," nodded the bellboy.
"I'll go up now!" decided Joe. "I think he might just as well see me now as later."
"Maybe he won't like it," the clerk warned him.
"I don't care whether he likes it or not!" cried Joe. "It may be too late if I don't go up now. You needn't bother to announce me," he said to the bell-boy who offered to accompany Joe to show the way. "I guess I can find the room all right."
Joe rode up in the elevator, and turned down the corridor leading to the two rooms occupied by Sanford. Pausing at the door of the outer room, Joe heard voices. He recognized one as Helen's.