"Give me the requisition, then."
Armed with this important document, he returned, and accosted Mr. Dawber.
"He has changed his mind about the coffee. You can give it to me; I will see that he gets it. Here is the requisition."
The commissariat officer was only too pleased to get rid of the bags according to form.
McKay next attacked him about the greggos. Despairing, after all he had heard, of getting them by fair means, he resolved to try a stratagem.
"You received yesterday, I believe, a consignment from the Burlington Castle?"
"Quite so. There are the chests, still unpacked. I have not the least idea what's inside."
"You have the bill of lading, I suppose?"
"Certainly."
"May I look at it? I come from the Burlington Castle, and the captain thinks he was wrong to have sent you the cases without passing the bill of lading through the commissariat officer at headquarters."