This, of
course, pending notification of your wish that we should
transfer the account elsewhere.
"Acting on our client's further instructions, we hereby
enclose in registered envelope circular notes value 100 pounds
sterling. Kindly acknowledge receipt and oblige."
"Yours faithfully,"
"B. Norgate,"
"for Wiseman and Norgate,"
"Solicitors."
"To"
"J. Foe, Esq., DSc.,"
"Grand Hotel,"
"Biarritz."
Jimmy looked me straight, and asked, "Is that letter posted?"
"It is," I answered. "I told Norgate that, as a matter of honour,
Jack's letter ought to be answered promptly. That's why I lost no
time this morning. Not being quite certain of the earliest post to
France, he made sure by sending off the office-boy straight to
St. Martin's-le-Grand."
"Then no taxi will avail us," groaned Jimmy, "and I must call for a
liqueur brandy instead. . . . Oh, Otty--you must forgive the old
feud: but why _did_ your parents send you to Cambridge? Mine sent me
to a place where I had at least to sweat up forty pages or so of a
fellow called Plato.
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