29/32 Mr.Jan, should I be summoned anywhere, you'll attend for me, I don't know when I shall be home." "All right," called out Jan. And Dr.West went out with Lionel Verner. "There's news come from Australia. John Massingbird's dead." The announcement was made so abruptly, with so little circumlocution or preparation, that Lionel Verner failed at the first moment to take in the full meaning of the words. |