Chapter 11
"HAS he got the sales slips?" asked Thatcher Colt.
Well, as to that, Detective Gernsback couldn't say. The commissioner hadn't ordered him to find out anything about sales slips. What he had asked him to do was to find the origin of the pillow cases and that, Detective Gernsback, who seemed to think his good fortune was an evidence of superior cunning and competence, had triumphantly accomplished. Sales slips were no part of his thoughts, and by voice and rolling eyes he gave the commissioner to understand that.
"Come on, Tony," said Thatcher Colt, "let's go down there and see what we can find."
Mr. Pearlman, the Manhattan agent for the Wigglestaff Co., was greatly flattered when Thatcher Colt entered his office, and his three stenographers stared up openmouthed from their m
