'Good,' I replied, 'I'll go with you; and as we shall be staying at the same hotel, it will be more convenient to both of us.'
'Do you really mean that, Luscombe?'
'Of course I do. I, like you, am at a loose end, and I shall be only too glad to have a pal until I am sent back to the front again. Now not another word, Edgecumbe. I am not a Rothschild, but I have no one dependent on me, and I have more money than I need to spend. So pack up your traps, and come with me.
'Have you seen Springfield since our meeting on Paddington station?' I asked, when presently we had removed to the hotel.
'Yes,' he replied; 'directly I got to the Y.M.C.A. Hostel, I wrote him at his club.'
'Well?' I asked.
'Oh, he was jolly friendly, and seemed anxious to take me around.'
'And have you been with him?'
'Yes,' he replied.
'With what results?'