Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre

by Hugh Walpole

III

The old man awoke with a start.

"And when you come to this Prohibition question," he said, "the Americans have simply become a laughing stock. . . ."

Harkness picked up the Browning firmly. "If you don't mind," he remarked, "I have a piece of work here of some importance and I have but little time. Pray excuse me. . . ."