Yes, afair amount, which was in such-and-such a
bank and such-and-suchinvestments.
Youre under the spell, I suppose, he
said.
Im dining with him the day after to-morrow at a
thing called theThursday Club.
From his look I should have said that his father
had called himselfNeuhofer. I was to do this and that,and I repeated them docilely.
Will you have your daughters sold into simony? Something deep down in mewas
insisting that I was Sir Richard Hannay, K.
We are only beginning to realise the strange
crannies of the humansoul. From that moment I found the evening go less pleasantly.
Yes, afair amount, which was in such-and-such a bank and such-and-suchinvestments.
Well, Ram Dass claimed thecredit of stopping that game by his psychological
dodges.
I have nothing to do, and I want to be quit ofmy
headache before bedtime.
There were two bright lightsin the street which
made me want to lie down on the kerb andsleep.
Iremembered that I had been drowsy there and
thought that I hadprobably bored him.
Then he wrote something on a slip of paper and
handed it to me. Burminster did the introducing, and Sandy for amoment looked
shy.
Has it ever struck you, Dick, that ecclesiastical
languagehas a most sinister sound?
But Norway is not possible till May, andin the
meantime I am going to order you specific treatment. All the same theres usually
something in his mostextravagant theories. Im dining with him the day after
to-morrow at a thing called theThursday Club.
I was inside one of those massive shelteredhouses,
and lo and behold! I feeldrowsy and slack, and Ive got a weakness in my legs and
back likea man who has just had flu.
I was to come back in a week andreport
progress.
Yes, but I had been inAngola most of the time and
had never fought. I wanted aboveall things to be allowed to sleep.
I suggested politics, and he rather liked the
notion. But there is one kind offanatic whose strength comes from balance, from a
lunatic balance.
Was it possible that he might be an enemy? Indeed I
dont mindtelling you that one of my chief reasons for coming home was a wishto see
Medina. Burminster did the introducing, and Sandy for amoment looked shy. The
bedrooms on the top floor isnot that easy found. But I was utterly at a loss to
account for mywretched condition. Did you notice what hour I came home last
night?
A servant entered, unsummoned, and put a tray of
drinks on a sidetable.
Theres a good deal in that Latin tag, he
said.
Im going to take him into my full confidence, I
said, when Ivespoken to Macgillivray.
I tried to shift my gaze, but I could only do that
by screwinground my head towards the dying fire.
My eyes were held bytwo violet pin-points of light
which were so bright that they hurtme.
The talkto begin with was nothing out of the
common.