CHAPTER VIIInformation Wanted
“Exactly, he said, most amiably. And cleared his throat. “First, however, George, a question of you. You say that you’ve travelled all over the U.S.A. for the shirt company?”
“Pretty much so. Not in Chicago, for we have a special man who has all this town exclusively. Nor have I gone south. But north and west. That is, not just for Recherché, you understand, but with other companies before them.”
“Yes, of course. Well, did you ever make Montreal, Canada?”
“Lots of times.”
“You don’t happen to know anybody there, do you, from whom you could get information for me about someone?”
“That depends. What kind of a person? And what kind of information? If it’s information about some Chicago clergyman, for instance—I know a Methodist deacon in Montreal who buys
