CHAPTER XVIII.
As Norgate entered the premises of Selingman, Horsfal and Company a little later on the same morning he looked around him in some surprise.
He had expected to find a deserted warehouse--probably only an office.

He saw instead all the evidences of a thriving and prosperous business.
Drays were coming and going from the busy door.

Crates were piled up to the ceiling, clerks with notebooks in their hands passed continually back and forth.

A small boy in a crowded office accepted his card and disappeared.

In a few minutes he led Norgate into a waiting-room and handed him a paper.
"Mr.Selingman is engaged with a buyer for a few moments, sir," he reported.