I was just going to shut myself up here and read the _Times_.

Have a cigarette?
Here's an envelope opener and a waste-paper basket.

Make yourself comfortable." Hunterleys glanced through his correspondence, rapidly reading and destroying the greater portion of it.

He came at last to two parchment envelopes marked "On His Majesty's Service." These he opened and read their contents slowly and with great care.

When he had finished, he produced a pair of scissors from his waistcoat pocket and cut the letters into minute fragments.