Chapter 4—Two Claimants
On the 6th November, at 7 a.m., Professor Schultz arrived at the Charing Cross Station. At noon he presented himself at No. 94 Southampton Row, entering a large room divided by a wooden barrier, one side being for the clerks, the other for the public. In it there were six chairs, a table, numberless green tin boxes, and a London Directory. Two young men, seated at the table, were quietly eating the traditional luncheon of bread and cheese usual with their class.
“Messrs. Billows, Green and Sharp?” said the professor, in the tone of a man calling for his dinner.
“Mr. Sharp is in his private room—what name? On what business?”
“Professor Schultz, of Jena. On the Langévol business.”
This information was murmured into the speaking-tube by the young clerk ; a reply b
