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It was exactly three o'clock when the two-forty-seven train from Victoria set Cleek down at Wandsworth Common, and it was exactly fifteen minutes later when he was shown into the modest little drawing-room of 17 Sunnington Crescent by Mrs. Culpin herself, handed an afternoon paper, and left in sole possession of the place.
Banneker at once echoed the name, rising. The managing editor, a tall, heavy man, whose smoothly fitting cutaway coat seemed miraculously to have escaped the plague of dust, stared at him above heavy glasses. "You want to see me?" "Yes. I sent in my name." "Did you? When?" "At two-forty-seven, thirty," replied the visitor with railroad accuracy.
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