Not before November, anyway.

And yesterday my publishers were keen that I should put in a night at Leipzig on my way home, and a night at the Hague; show whatever 'copy' I have to firms there, and make arrangements for German and Dutch translations to appear as soon as possible after the English edition is out.

I think I may as well do this, and return by the Hook of Holland.

I enjoy the night-crossing, and like reaching London early in the morning.

By the way, haven't you a cousin of some sort living at Leipzig ?" "Yes; my first cousin, Aubrey Treherne.