RANSVESTIA

He hardly knew how to start an examination. But her very narrow waist, her soft, hairless skin, and the general development of her upper arms and breasts were so womanly that he was sure she was playing some elaborate joke on him. She was quite agreeable to the complete examinatin he suggested. She was over her initial embarrassment, though she wouldn't look at him directly. She slipped off the nylon panties that she wore and she was exactly as she said she was, the Doctor found out: Angie Saunders was definitely a man.

Jean Rodriguez wouldn't let Glen Lincoln ride with her in the cab to the hotel, not even when she knew he would go to the same hotel and take a room as close to her as he could. Despite his attentions, she found a pay phone booth, closed the door, and made a long series of calls from the hotel lobby, while the detective sat impassively in the center of the hotel lounge, clearly keeping her under close obser- vation.

The arrival of a stone-faced Robert Cort the following day did little to give the detective any further clues upon the disappearance of Angie Saunders. Robert Cort took the detective's report impassively in the suite Lincoln had reserved for him. "Very well," said Cort at last. "I think that I will take it from here Lincoln."

The detective stared at Pacific Studios' President, "You mean that I'm released," he asked, stupefied. "I can go back to California?"

"That's exactly what I mean," stated Robert Cort, stalking over to the door of his suite. "I shall go and see Jean now. Please submit your itemized expenses to Arthur in California."

Cort didn't know or care whether the young man would follow his instructions. He strode quickly along the passageway to the room that Jean had taken. He expected that the young detective would return reluctantly to California. After all, Pacific's business was not to be lightly disregarded—and humoring the President was something that Lincoln would know that he had to do to keep his retainer.

"Well, Jean," he said to her shocked face when she opened the door. "So do know where Mrs. Cort is, after all."

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