Warming, 27, Chancery Lane ?" They were all assiduous to hear.

But he had to repeat it.

"What an odd _blurr_ in his accent!" whispered the red-haired man.

"Wire, sir ?" said the young man with the flaxen beard, evidently puzzled.
"He means send an electric telegram," volunteered the third, a pleasant-faced youth of nineteen or twenty.

The flaxen-bearded man gave a cry of comprehension.