24/57 No; I help win the ruddy war, that's all. See you before you go, Graham, I suppose? There'll be time for you to stand a dinner on the strength of it yet." A week later Peter met Langton by appointment in the Rouen club, the two of them being booked to travel that evening via Amiens to Abbeville. His tall friend was drinking a whisky-and-soda in the smoke-room and talking with a somewhat bored expression to no less a person than Jenks of the A.S.C. "Hullo!" he said to the latter. |