“How would he know that?”
“Because I raised the name with Lord Wight, and Hackett was aware of my and Eggers’s lunch with him yesterday.”
“So you think Hackett and Wight are in league?”
“Wight owns the building that is Hackett’s headquarters. I don’t know that they’re otherwise ‘in league,’ as you put
it.”
“Let’s suspect the worst,” she replied.
“You do that; I’ll just try to find Whitestone.”
“You’re not making a lot of progress on that, are you?” Dino asked.
“We’ve got the bank and the Seagram Building staked out; that’s all we can do at the moment.”
“Stone is making progress,” Felicity said to Dino.
“Thank you, Felicity,” Stone said.
Felicity took a sip of her Rob Roy. “If they are in league, then Hackett knows that you and I know each other, because you introduced me to Wight at the ambassador’s dinner party.”
“Good point,” Stone said. “Also, Hackett seems to be the sort of guy who knows everything about everybody, so we’d best assume he knows everything about us.”
“Everything?” Felicity asked.
“Well, not everything.”
“Hackett also made me a job offer,” Stone said. “Sort of.”
“What sort of job offer?”
“He gave me his card and said if I ever tired of working for Woodman and Weld, he would make me comfortable at his company.”
“Take the job,” Dino said. “Then maybe you’d know everything.”
“I think he did it just to annoy Bill Eggers,” Stone said, “and it worked.”
“Dino has a point,” Felicity said.
“You want me to go to work for Hackett?”
“That would never do,” Dino said. “Then Stone would actually have to work for a living.”
Felicity couldn’t suppress a laugh. “Why don’t you drop him a note and manage to indicate some interest?”
“Because Hackett would see that Eggers knew about it, and I’d catch hell from him.”
“Then tell Eggers why you’re doing it,” she said.
“You want him to know about Whitestone?”
“You already mentioned the name in his presence at the dinner party.”
“You want me to tell him I’m working for you?”
“Certainly not. You can lie about that.”