Bob told him.
"It's a lie—a lie!"
"Of course it must be, if you've married her, as you say," said Bob. "But perhaps I'm disturbing you. Would you like to go to sleep?"
"Very much indeed," replied Gordon. "I should like to go to sleep and stay asleep. I wish you'd go and serve Goby and De Vere as you've served me!"
"I'm so sorry," said Bob, "but you always said you wanted any news, and that's why I told you first."
Gordon held out his hand, and Bob shook it warmly.
"By the way," he asked, "what about the hair restorer?"
"What hair restorer?" asked the astonished Hebrew.
"The one you put ninety pounds of mine in, sir."
"It wasn't in a hair restorer. What makes you say so?"