烟囱山庄之谜4

George Lomax returned straightway to Whitehall. As he entered the sumptuous apartment in which he transacted affairs of State, there was a scuffling sound.,Mr. Bill Eversleigh was assiduously filing letters, but a large arm-chair near the window was still warm from contact with a human form.,A very likeable young man, Bill Eversleigh. Age at a guess, twenty-five, big and rather ungainly in his movements, a pleasurably ugly face, a splendid set of white teeth and a pair of honest brown eyes.,“Richardson sent up that report yet?”,“No, sir. Shall I get on to him about it? ”,“It doesn’t matter. Any telephone messages?
”,“Tell Miss Oscar to look in my engagement-book. If I’m not engaged, she can ring up and accept.”,“Yes, sir. ”,“By the way, Eversleigh, you might ring up a number for me now. Look it up in the book. Mrs. Revel, 487, Pont Street.
”,“Yes, sir.”,Bill seized the telephone-book, ran an unseeing eye down a column of M’s, shut the book with a bang and moved to the instrument on the desk. With his hand upon it, he paused, as though in sudden recollection.,