Next morning, same procedure on Jephson's part: similar bolster
of papers, neatly folded and laid across the foot of my bed.
This time I poured myself a cup of tea and reached for them lazily.
The _Times_ was topmost. Jephson always laid the _Times_ topmost.
Five minutes later . . . But listen to this--
_(To-night before resuming his story Otway had laid on the table
beside him a small but bulging letter-case, from the contents of
which he now selected a newspaper cutting.)_
PUBLIC ENDOWMENT OF RESEARCH
To the Editor of _The Times_:--
Sir,
A Memorial, influentially signed by a number of ladies and
gentlemen variously eminent in Society, Politics, Literature and
Art but united in their friendship for the dumb creation, was
recently addressed to the Principal of the South London
("Silversmiths'") University College, situated in the
constituency for which I am offering myself as representative in
the next London County Council. In this Memorial the Principal
was invited to ease the public mind with respect to rumours
(widely prevalent) concerning certain practices in the
laboratories under his charge, either by denying them or
inviting a public inquiry.
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