Comes easy to that sort, I suppose." "Did he--did Mr.Waddington obtain any clue as to the whereabouts of the missing property ?" Burton asked, with some eagerness.
"Not as I knows on," the plasterer replied, picking up his brush, "and as to the missing property, there was nowt but a few mouldy rugs and a flower-pot in the room.

Some folks does seem able to work themselves up into a fuss about nothing, and no mistake! Good morning, guvnor! Drop in again some time when you're passing." Burton turned out of Wenslow Square and approached the offices and salesrooms of Messrs.

Waddington & Forbes with some misgiving.

Bearing in mind the peculiar nature of the business conducted by the firm, he could only conclude that ruin, prompt and absolute, had been the inevitable sequence of Mr.Waddington's regrettable appetite.

He was somewhat relieved to find that there were no evidences of it in the familiar office which he entered with some diffidence.
"Is Mr.Waddington in ?" he inquired.
A strange young man slipped from his stool and found his questioner gazing about him in a bewildered manner.