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I
resolved
not
to
puzzle
my
head
but
to
take
the
gifts
the
gods
had
provided
.
I
shaved
and
bathed
luxuriously
,
and
got
into
the
dress
clothes
and
clean
crackling
shirt
,
which
fitted
me
not
so
badly
.
By
the
time
I
had
finished
the
looking-glass
showed
a
not
unpersonable
young
man
.
Sir
Walter
awaited
me
in
a
dusky
dining-room
where
a
little
round
table
was
lit
with
silver
candles
.
The
sight
of
him
--
so
respectable
and
established
and
secure
,
the
embodiment
of
law
and
government
and
all
the
conventions
--
took
me
aback
and
made
me
feel
an
interloper
.
He
could
n't
know
the
truth
about
me
,
or
he
would
n't
treat
me
like
this
.
I
simply
could
not
accept
his
hospitality
on
false
pretences
.
"
I
'm
more
obliged
to
you
than
I
can
say
,
but
I
'm
bound
to
make
things
clear
,
"
I
said
.
"
I
'm
an
innocent
man
,
but
I
'm
wanted
by
the
police
.
I
've
got
to
tell
you
this
,
and
I
wo
n't
be
surprised
if
you
kick
me
out
.
"
He
smiled
.
"
That
's
all
right
.
Do
n't
let
that
interfere
with
your
appetite
.
We
can
talk
about
these
things
after
dinner
.
"
I
never
ate
a
meal
with
greater
relish
,
for
I
had
had
nothing
all
day
but
railway
sandwiches
.
Sir
Walter
did
me
proud
,
for
we
drank
a
good
champagne
and
had
some
uncommon
fine
port
afterwards
.
It
made
me
almost
hysterical
to
be
sitting
there
,
waited
on
by
a
footman
and
a
sleek
butler
,
and
remember
that
I
had
been
living
for
three
weeks
like
a
brigand
,
with
every
man
's
hand
against
me
.
I
told
Sir
Walter
about
tiger-fish
in
the
Zambesi
that
bite
off
your
fingers
if
you
give
them
a
chance
,
and
we
discussed
sport
up
and
down
the
globe
,
for
he
had
hunted
a
bit
in
his
day
.
We
went
to
his
study
for
coffee
,
a
jolly
room
full
of
books
and
trophies
and
untidiness
and
comfort
.
I
made
up
my
mind
that
if
ever
I
got
rid
of
this
business
and
had
a
house
of
my
own
,
I
would
create
just
such
a
room
.
Then
when
the
coffee-cups
were
cleared
away
,
and
we
had
got
our
cigars
alight
,
my
host
swung
his
long
legs
over
the
side
of
his
chair
and
bade
me
get
started
with
my
yarn
.
"
I
've
obeyed
Harry
's
instructions
,
"
he
said
,
"
and
the
bribe
he
offered
me
was
that
you
would
tell
me
something
to
wake
me
up
.
I
'm
ready
,
Mr
Hannay
.
"
I
noticed
with
a
start
that
he
called
me
by
my
proper
name
.
I
began
at
the
very
beginning
.
I
told
of
my
boredom
in
London
,
and
the
night
I
had
come
back
to
find
Scudder
gibbering
on
my
doorstep
.
I
told
him
all
Scudder
had
told
me
about
Karolides
and
the
Foreign
Office
conference
,
and
that
made
him
purse
his
lips
and
grin
.
Then
I
got
to
the
murder
,
and
he
grew
solemn
again
.
He
heard
all
about
the
milkman
and
my
time
in
Galloway
,
and
my
deciphering
Scudder
's
notes
at
the
inn
.
