"What makes you think I know anything?"
"Didn't your father have a library full of them? And didn't you catalogue them and sell them in London?"
I admitted this, but added that even that undertaking had left me very ignorant of the subject.
"Yes; but it's a beginning. If you know the Greek or Russian alphabet it's a very good point from which to go on and learn the language."
"But why should I learn that language?"
"Because I know a man who's going to have a vacancy soon for a librarian. It's a private library, rather a famous one in New York, and the young lady at present in command is leaving to be married."
I smiled pleasantly.
"Yes; but what has that got to do with me?"
"Didn't I tell you I was going to look you up another job?"
"Oh! And so you've looked me up this!"