He's a smart chap, Gaffney--the sort that might be useful at a pinch.

If any one wanted anything ferreted out, now!--he's the sense of an Airedale terrier, that chap!" "High praise," laughed Fullaway.

"And original too.

Well, let's fix up and get some food, and then we'll go into my private rooms and have a talk over the situation." Mr.Franklin Fullaway, following a certain modern fashion, introduced into life by twentieth-century company promoters and magnates of the high finance, had established his business quarters at his hotel.

It was a wise and pleasant thing to do, he explained to Allerdyke; you had the advantage of living over the shop, as it were; of being able to go out of your private sitting-room into your business office; you had the bright and pleasant surroundings; you had, moreover, all the various rooms and saloons of a first-rate hotel wherein to entertain your clients if need be.