One-fifty-six West Eighty-second Street. Perhaps the best plan would be for you to be at my house when I leave, but of course I shall leave the tactics to you. I don't want to be followed to that address. I don't want it known that I have any connection with it. If I am not followed, that would end it for today, and I would call on you again only when I intend to go there again." "When would that be?" Too Many Clients 5 "I can't say definitely. Possibly later in the week, perhaps some day next week. I could notify you a day in advance." "How will you go, your car or a taxi?" "Taxi." "Which is more important to you, not to be followed to that address, or to know whether you're followed or not, or to identify the tail if you have one?" "They're all important." "Well." I screwed my lips. "I admit it's a little special. I mentioned a hundred dollars an hour, but that's for routine. The shoe would have to fit the foot, with Mr. Wolfe doing the fitting and you the footing." He smiled. "There will be no difficulty about that. Then I'll expect you around seven. A little before?" "Probably." I got my notebook. "Will the tail be someone you know?" "I don't know. It might be." "Man or woman?" "I couldn't say. I don't know." "An operative or a do-it-yourself?" "I don't know. It could be either." "Spotting him will be simple. Then what? If he's an operative I might recognize him, but that wouldn't help much. Of course I can pull him off whether I recognize him or not, but I can't squeeze his client's name out of him." "But you can pull him off?" "Sure. How much would the client's name be worth to you? It might come high." "I don't think . . ." He hesitated. "I don't believe I would care to do that." 6 Rex Stout That didn't seem to fit, but I skipped it. "If it's someone on his own, of course I'll pull him off, and what else? Do you want him to know he's been spotted?" He considered it for three seconds.