"What are you into?" he said.
"What have you heard?"
"How did you get involved in this?" she asked.
"That address, so far as we're concerned, doesn't exist," Brandon Chambers said.
"Do you take my point?"
"No, I don't,' she said.
"It's a government installation," he said. "We don't know it's there.
We don't write about it."
"Oh," she said.
"When you signed my name to that service message, they checked with me."
"I didn't sign your name to it," she said.
"My name for the time being is Chambers, too."
She beard him sigh in exasperation, but he chose not to argue about that.
"I have to know, honey," he said, "what you're working on. "I was looking for Dick Canidy," she said.
"I got that address from his father." There was a long pause.
"Eddie returned from China with an unpleasant report on Mr. Canidy," Brandon Chambers finally said.
"That he was a coward," Ann said. "Eddie told me."
"And Canidy's father gave you the Q Street address?"
"And two telephone numbers," Ann said.
"I called both of them, and they said they had never heard of Canidy."
"What's behind your deep interest in Canidy?"
"I swore Mother to secrecy," Ann said, "but I thought she'd tell you anyway. I'm going to marry him."
"For Christ's sake!" he said.
"This is not a joking matter, Ann," "Who's jokin&" "Now, listen to me," he said.
"Drop your inquiry right now. Right here. If you don't, you can do us a great deal of harm. I've come to an agreement with certain people-" "It's a military secret, right?" she challenged, "And I'm a Nazi agent."
"It is a matter of military secrecy, Ann," her father said. "Odd, wouldn't you say, that a coward is involved with military secrets?" she said. "Just drop it, Ann, okay?" he said.
"I want your word."
"Or what?"
"Or you're fired, This moment." He's absolutely serious.
"It's that important?"