Chapter 3
"MR. FLECK"Twice after the elevator had deposited her on the floor Jane had
approached the door of Room 708, and twice she had walked
timorously past it to the end of the hall, trying to muster up
courage to enter. A visit to a man's office in the business
district was a novelty for her. On the few previous excursions of
the sort she had made she always had been accompanied by one of her
parents. She found herself wishing now that she had taken her
father into her confidence and had asked him to go with her. Making
shopping her excuse she had come down-town with Mr. Strong but had
gotten off at Astor Place, and waited over for another train.
In her hand she held the card given to her by the
black-mustached man the afternoon before. As she studied it now her
curiosity
