This time, passing the Hare and Hounds, he looked at door and windows.

He caught a face scowling at him over a brown wire blind bearing the words "Wines and Spirits" on it in letters of dull gold.

It was a commonplace type of face, small-featured, ginger-moustached, and crowned by a billy-cock hat set at a rakish angle.

Its most marked characteristic was the positive hatred which glowed in the sharp, pale-blue eyes.

Grant wondered who this highly censorious young man might be.