CHAPTER XIV.
Count Pateroff After an interval of some weeks, during which Harry had been down at Clavering and had returned again to his work at the Adelphi, Count Pateroff called again in Bloomsbury Square; but Harry was at Mr.
Beilby's office.

Harry at once returned the count's visit at the address given in Mount Street.

Madame was at home, said the servant-girl, from which Harry was led to suppose that the count was a married man; but Harry felt that he had no right to intrude upon madame, so he simply left his card.

Wishing, however, really to have this interview, and having been lately elected at a club of which he was rather proud, he wrote to the count asking him to dine with him at the Beaufort.

He explained that there was a stranger's room--which Pateroff knew very well, having often dined at the Beaufort--and said something as to a private little dinner for two, thereby apologizing for proposing to the count to dine without other guests.