Hirsch’s brother found Kelly in the centre of a group of settlement clerks.

“Say, boy,” he began, “ you ought to know. They tell me there may be trouble between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can see the market if that’s so.”

“Nothing in it,” retorted Kelly. “But I’ll find out⁠—to make sure, by Jingo.”

Meanwhile Landry had gained the top of the stairs, and turning to the right, passed through a great doorway, and came out upon the floor of the Board of Trade.