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Five FIRST NIGHT IN LONDON
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Five FIRST NIGHT IN LONDON
There is often a flaw in the best-laid plans. George Lomax had made onemistake—there was a weak spot in his preparations. The weak spot wasBill.
Bill Eversleigh was an extremely nice lad. He was a good cricketer and ascratch golfer, he had pleasant manners, and an amiable1 disposition2, buthis position in the Foreign Office had been gained, not by brains, but bygood connexions. For the work he had to do he was quite suitable. He wasmore or less George’s dog. He did no responsible or brainy work. His partwas to be constantly at George’s elbow, to interview unimportant peoplewhom George didn’t want to see, to run errands, and generally to makehimself useful. All this Bill carried out faithfully enough. When Georgewas absent, Bill stretched himself out in the biggest chair and read thesporting news, and in so doing he was merely carrying out a time-hon-oured tradition.
Being accustomed to send Bill on errands, George had dispatched him tothe union Castle offices to find out when the Granarth Castle was due in.
Now, in common with most well-educated young Englishmen, Bill had apleasant but quite inaudible voice. Any elocution master would havefound fault with his pronunciation of the word Granarth. It might havebeen anything. The clerk took it to be Carnfrae.
The Carnfrae Castle was due in on the following Thursday. He said so.
Bill thanked him and went out. George Lomax accepted the informationand laid his plans accordingly. He knew nothing about union Castle liners,and took it for granted that James McGrath would duly arrive onThursday.
Therefore, at the moment he was buttonholing Lord Caterham on thesteps of the club on Wednesday morning, he would have been greatly sur-prised to learn that the Granarth Castle had docked at Southampton thepreceding afternoon. At two o’clock that afternoon Anthony Cade, travel-ling under the name of Jimmy McGrath, stepped out of the boat train atWaterloo, hailed a taxi, and after a moment’s hesitation4, ordered thedriver to proceed to the Blitz Hotel.
“One might as well be comfortable,” said Anthony to himself as helooked with some interest out of the taxi windows.
It was exactly fourteen years since he had been in London.
He arrived at the hotel, booked a room, and then went for a short strollalong the Embankment. It was rather pleasant to be back in London again.
Everything was changed of course. There had been a little restaurantthere—just past Blackfriars Bridge—where he had dined fairly often, incompany with other earnest lads. He had been a
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