“Cordially, Junius Theodore Bandicott.
“Mr. J. Macnab.”
“That’s the young’un,” Archie observed. “The old man was christened ‘Acheson,’ and don’t take any interest in fishin’. He spends his time in lookin’ for Norse remains.”
“He seems a decent sort of fellow,” said Palliser-Yeates, “but I don’t quite like the last sentence. He’ll probably try shooting, same as his countrymen once did on the Beauly. Whoever gets this job will have some excitement for his money.”
Lamancha read out the last letter:
“227 North Melville Street, Edinburgh, Aug.—, 19—
“Sir, Re Haripol Forest.
“Our client, the Right Honourable Lord Claybody, has read to us on the telephone your letter of Aug.—and has desired us to reply to it. We are instructed to say that our client is at a loss to understand how to take y
