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The old museum, before the present building was erected, was contained in the premises of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and in addition there was what was then known as the Museum of the Geological Survey of India located in 1, Hastings Street, now in the occupation of Grindlay & Co., and was under the charge of Dr.
October 15, 1897. No. N. 277 A. of 189 . From THE UNDER-SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh. To A. H. SAVAGE LANDOR, Esq., c/o Messrs. GRINDLAY, GROOM & CO., Bankers, Bombay. Dated, ALLAHABAD, November 13, 1897. In reply to your letter of November 5, I am desired to send you a printed copy of depositions recorded by Mr. Larkin as noted below: 1. Of yourself; 2. Of Chanden Sing; 3.
"What necktie do you want to wear to-day?" He mumbled ruefully, eyeing her over the coffee-cup: "Any of 'em. It don't matter which. They're all alike when you've tied 'em!" She beamed at what seemed to her a gallant speech. "Sans compliment? You really mean it? And you won't miss Grindlay so frightfully, after all?" He shook his head ambiguously.
Keep your mouth shut and you may find your provisional rank confirmed." To Berthe Louison's secret agents, the Grindlay Bank at Delhi, Major Hawke had delivered a sealed envelope. "Use this only at your sorest need. I will see Madame Louison probably before she has any orders for me, as to her private affairs."
"I shan't begin really to suffer for Grindlay not till it comes to tubbin' with one fin." "Mercy upon us!" She gasped in consternation. He said, controlling his features from wreathing into triumphant smiles: "You were so cast-iron certain you could fill his place, you know!" Her bright black eyes were hidden under abashed and drooping eyelids.
Check on Grindlay, 11 and 12 Parliament Street, for four hundred and twenty-eight." Hawke bowed gravely with the air of a satisfied duelist, and then carelessly swept the check and notes into his breast pocket. "Tell me, what sort of a girl is this Nadine Johnstone," the wanderer said, by way of a diversion. "I can't tell you! Only old General Willoughby has pierced the veil.
I will go direct to Calcutta, and will then meet you at Delhi. Arriving at Delhi, you may telegraph to me care Grindlay & Co., Calcutta." "I wonder if she bled Anstruther," inwardly growled Hawke, as he recognized the name of that social butterfly's bankers. But the lady only sweetly continued: "I have some business in Calcutta.
Accompanied by Captain Henry Grindlay of the Bengal Cavalry, he left London for Southampton, 3rd April 1853, and thence took steamer for Egypt, without ever a thought of Isabel Arundell's blue eye or Rapunzel hair, and utterly unconscious of the sighs he had evoked. At Alexandria he was the guest of Mr. John Thurburn and his son-in-law, Mr.
Amongst the numerous letters received by Sir Moses on this matter was one from Messrs Grindlay, Christian & Matthews, East India Agency, containing an extract from a letter from Commodore Brucks, of the Indian navy, which showed that the great esteem in which both Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore were held by the people in the far East sometimes proved detrimental to the interest of their admirers.
I must wait a day or so to send on the Grindlay check," the wanderer mused, smiling genially upon the head porter. Major Alan Hawke casually inquired, upon his leisurely descent, "My friend?" "Ah, sir! Paid his bill and left. Luggage already sent to the station labeled 'Paris." Alan Hawke most liberally tipped the functionary.
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