Miss
Bishop--what initial?"
"S."
"What's S. for?"
"Sally."
"Miss Sally Bishop, 73 Strand-on-Green, Kew Bridge. And I owe you
ten pounds."
For a moment she smiled--then her expression changed.
"That's perfectly ridiculous," she said.
"I wouldn't have you think it anything else," he said; "but,
nevertheless, that's a legally contracted debt."
CHAPTER XI
Before she left the office that evening, Sally picked up the volume
of _Who's Who?_ kept there mainly because Mr. Bonsfield had a brother
whose name figured with some credit upon one of its pages. She turned
quickly over the leaves, until the name of Traill leapt out from the
print to hold her eye.
"John Hewitt Traill"--she read it with self-conscious
interest--"barrister-at-law and journalist. Born 1871; son of late
Sir William Hewitt Traill, C.B., of Apsley Manor, near High Wycombe,
Bucks. Address: Regent Street. _Clubs:_ National Liberal, and Savage.
_Recreations:_ riding, shooting, fishing."
That was all--the registration of a nonentity, it might have
seemed--in a wilderness of names. But it meant more than that to her.
Each word vibrated in her consciousness. Reading that--slight,
uncommunicative as it was--had made her feel a pride in their
acquaintance.
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