22/24 I see you have Buck here, so you have probably heard what is necessary. I--" The King swept his eyes anxiously round the room, which now blazed with the trappings of three cities. "Send for the Provost of West Kensington." Amid some materialistic protests he was sent for, and arrived with his yellow halberdiers in his saffron robes, wiping his forehead with a handkerchief. After all, placed as he was, he had a good deal to say on the matter. "I have long wished to see you touching that matter of the Hammersmith land to the south of the Rowton House. |