What brought me here to-day was to see if the Major would lend me a set of car cushions.

The rats got in on the ones I have of my own, and they've holes ate in them so as you'd be ashamed to put them on a car." "You shall have them with the greatest possible pleasure," said Meldon.
"Not the new ones," said the Major through the window.
"I thought," said Meldon; "that you didn't want to be disturbed, and that I was carrying on this negotiation with Mr.Doyle.

You must do one thing or the other, Major.

Either come out and manage your own affairs, or else leave them entirely in my hands .-- You can't," he said, turning to Doyle, "have the new cushions unless for some very special purpose.

Is Miss King thinking of going for a drive on your car?
If she is, the Major will lend the new cushions." "She is not," said Doyle; "not that I heard of any way, though she might take the notion later." "Then what do you want the cushions for ?" "It's an English gentleman," said Doyle; "a high-up man by all accounts, that has the fishing took from Simpkins.