"Might I venture to enquire, sir, if you are likely to be returning to Berlin ?" "I think it is very doubtful, Hardy," Norgate observed grimly.

"We are more likely to remain here for a time." Hardy brushed his master's hat for a moment or two in silence.
"You will pardon my mentioning it, sir," he said--"I imagine it is of no importance--but one of the German waiters on this floor has been going out of his way to enter into conversation with me this evening.

He seemed to know your name and to know that you had just come from Germany.

He hinted at some slight trouble there, sir." "The dickens he did!" Norgate exclaimed.

"That's rather quick work, Hardy." "So I thought, sir," the man continued.