of kindness, and he came in with a parcel. I could see it, though he tried to keep it behind his back. And then he asked me to go to the smoking room and snip some cigars for him; and about two minutes afterwards he came down—and he wasn’t carrying anything. So it must be in his room.”
I understand they deliberately teach these dashed Boy Scouts to cultivate their powers of observation and deduction and whatnot.
Devilish thoughtless and inconsiderate of them, I call it. Look at the trouble it causes.
“It sounds incredible,” said Uncle Willoughby, thereby bucking me up a trifle.
“Shall I go and look in his room?” asked young blighted Edwin. “I’m sure the parcel’s there.”
“But what could