4/27 He bought some common Virginian cigarettes and made his way to the offices of Messrs. His office was pervaded by a sort of studious calm which, from a business point of view, seemed scarcely satisfactory. Mr.Waddington himself appeared to be immersed in a calf-bound volume of Ruskin. He glanced curiously at his late employee. "That combination of gray trousers and brown coat with a blue tie seems scarcely in your usual form." Burton dragged up a chair to the side of his late employer's desk. |