Whether I join you there will depend upon the warmth of my welcome." Two or three young Poles were in the shop.

Stanislas asked them for Allan Ramsay, and they replied that he was taking his evening meal upstairs, whereupon Charlie produced the letter from Colonel Jamieson, and Stanislas requested one of them to take it up to the merchant.

Three minutes later the inner door opened, and a tall man with a ruddy face and blue eyes entered, holding the open letter in his hand.

Charlie took a step forward to meet him.
"So you are Sandy Anderson," he said heartily, with a merry twinkle in his eye, "my connection, it seems, and the friend of my dear classmate Jamieson?
Come upstairs.

Who is this Scotch-looking lad with you ?" "He is my servant and interpreter.