"
Again he laughed, laughed like a man enjoying sudden relief of mind.
"More than I can tell you, Mrs. Clover. But I'll see if I can't find
out; indeed I will. Her friends, the Nibby's, may be able to tell me
something. Have you asked her to come and see you?"
"No. For one thing I don't know the address, and after a letter like
this--"
"Quite right. Leave it to me." He bent his head, hesitated, and
added quietly, "I may have something to tell you."
Thereupon they parted, and Mrs. Clover felt her head so much better
that she was able to attend to business.
CHAPTER XXVI
A DOUBLE EVENT
With clang and twang the orchestra (a music-hall orchestra) summoned
to hilarity an audience of the first half-hour; stragglers at
various prices, but all alike in their manifest subdual by a cold
atmosphere, a dull illumination, empty seats, and inferior singers
put on for the early "turns." A striking of matches to kindle pipe
or cigar, a thudding of heavy boots, clink of glass or pewter, and a
waiter's spiritless refrain--"Any orders, gents?" Things would be
better presently.
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