He examined it carefully. “What can I do for you, Mr. March?” he asked.
“I’d like to get some information. I’m aware that you can give only limited data and that’ll be fine. You have an account here in the name of Harry Masters. Did you know him?”
“Very well. He’d had an account here for years.”
“You probably know that it is believed he died in a fire in the southeast section of town.”
He nodded.
“My company,” I said, “carried the insurance on the building that was burned and on the lives of Mr. Masters and his brother-in-law. That is why I’m looking for information.”
“But, surely,” he exclaimed, “there’s no question about the validity of the insurance claims?”
“I didn’t say there was. But we always make a careful check in cases such as this. We need the data for our files and the u
