"Do you know I've had it in my mind for years to look you up, but there's such a confounded temptation to let things drift, you know." "I know," rejoined Adams, smiling.

"I've drifted with them." "Well, I'm jolly glad that you've drifted my way at last.

So you've been to luncheon, have you ?" Kemper enquired again, as he unfastened a button of his overcoat and drew out his watch.

"I wish you hadn't--I've promised to meet a man at the club and it's past the hour.

I say, look here," he added hastily as he was about to hurry off, "I've some rather decent rooms of my own now where I sometimes manage to get a quiet morsel.