And what about the Press Club angle? That would indicate Steele was a
newspaperman. Could this be merely an attempt to pump me and get a
lead on True's investigation? But that would be just as crude as the
other idea. Of course, he might be sincere. But regardless of his
motives, it looked bad. Arid who had told him about me?

I thought about that for a minute. Then I picked up the phone and
dialed Jack Daly's number.

{p. 34}

"Jack, do you know anyone named John Steele?" I asked him. "I think
he's a newspaperman."

"Nobody I know," said Jack. "Why, what's up?"

I explained, and added, "I thought maybe you knew him, and he'd heard
about it from you."

"Hell, no," said Jack. "You ought to know I wouldn't leak any tip like
that."

"It wouldn't be a tip--I don't know anything about this deal yet. By
the way, when you were on the Star did you handle anything on 'foo
fighters'?"

"No, that was after I left there. Bill Shippen would have covered
that, anyway."