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there. My memory doesn't serve me now to know the names of the other persons that were there, but they were the heart or core of the Section 24 squad. I suppose I didn't even know the names of most of them.

I took it in at a glance. I said to the quard, “Hold the elevator for a few moments.” I didn't want to be left absolutely alone with them and I thought I had better have a witness if necessary. The guard was a kind of a fat, thick old men. He must have been high onto seventy, a veteran of the Spanish War, I presume, and perhaps of even earlier vantage. He just ran the elevator at night. The night operator doesn't have to be a very active man. However, I thought it was better to have him around.

There was considerable astonishment on their faces when I walked in. I said, “What were you doing, Mr. Garrison? What's going on?”

He was a very quick-witted man. He said, “You know we're all out.”

I said, “Yes, I do know. I'm surprised to see you here tonight because your duties ended as of last night.”

He said, “yes, but the notice was so sudden that we didn't have time to get our personal belongings and our personal correspondence. It just gets mixed in with the other.”