“Oh, yes, sir. Dr. Waters. Very good, sir. You’ll find him in the laboratory, sir.”
“Right. We’d better hurry up, or we may just miss him.”
We plunged back into the taxi.
“Shall we find any difficulty in getting in?”
“Oh, no. I’ve been there before. We’re making very good time. Provided he hadn’t started before Stevens got through to him, he’ll wait for us. Ah! here we are.”
We drew up at a side door in the big Government building. After a short colloquy with the man on duty, we were passed through. I stumbled at Waters’ heels through a number of dreary corridors, till we fetched up in a kind of small anteroom.
“I feel strongly persuaded,” I said, “that I am on a visit to the dentist.”
“And you hope very much he’ll say there’s nothing to be done to you this time. I, on the contrary, hope very much that it’s something malignant