The matter is of some importance, however, and I will wait for Mr.Laverick." The visitor was shown in.

Laverick investigated his appearance through a crack in the door.

He was a man of medium height, well-dressed, clean-shaven, and wore gold-rimmed spectacles.

He made himself comfortable in Laverick's easy-chair, and accepted the paper which Halsey offered him.
"I shall be quite glad of a rest," he remarked genially.

"I have been running about all the morning." "Mr.Laverick is never very long out for lunch, sir," Halsey said.
"I daresay he will not keep you more than a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes." The clerk withdrew and closed the door.