"I hope I didn't do wrong, sir.

He said it was important, and that you were to have it at once." "He ?" Jimmie Dale was lighting his cigarette now.
"A boy, sir," Benson amplified.

"I couldn't get anything out of him.

He just said he'd been told to give it to me, and tell me to see that you got it at once.

I hope, sir, I haven't--" "Not at all, Benson," said Jimmie Dale pleasantly.