"We've taken this matter up with the British Government, and we've been retained to look into it." "You want me to go to Washington, I suppose." "You've got to go to India at once." "That clipping is two months old," I answered.

"Why didn't you wire me when I was in Egypt to go on from there ?" "Look at this!" he answered, and shoved a letter across the desk.
It bore the address of a club in Simla.
Meldrum Strange, Esq., Messrs.

Grim, Ramsden and Ross, New York.
Dear Sir, Having recently resigned my commission in the British Indian army I am free to offer my services to your firm, provided you have a sufficiently responsible position here in India to offer me.

My qualifications and record are known to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., to whom I am permitted to refer you, and it is at the suggestion of -- -- -- -- (he gave the name of a British Cabinet Minister who is known the wide world over) that I am making this proposal; he was good enough to promise his endorsement to any application I might care to make.

If this should interest you, please send me a cablegram, on receipt of which I will hold my services at your disposal until your letter has time to reach Simla, when, if your terms are satisfactory, I will cable my acceptance without further delay.
Yours faithfully, Athelstan King, V.C., D.S.