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Updated: May 21, 2025
The Kestrel-Smith toilet tools aren't up to much, but they are better than nothing." "If you feel sure that you have a title," said Jerton, "why not get hold of a peerage and go right through it?" "I tried that. I skimmed through the list of the House of Lords in 'Whitaker, but a mere printed string of names conveys awfully little to one, you know.
I knew the name of this hotel and made up my mind to come here, and when the hotel porter who meets the trains asked if I had any luggage I had to invent a dressing-bag and dress-basket; I could always pretend that they had gone astray. I gave him the name of Smith, and presently he emerged from a confused pile of luggage and passengers with a dressing-bag and dress-basket labelled Kestrel-Smith.
The lobster Newburg made my lunch rather an expensive one, and, of course, I had to tip that boy for what he did to the Kestrel-Smith locks. I've got rather a useful idea, though. I feel certain that I belong to the Pivot Club; I'll go back to town and ask the hall porter there if there are any letters for me.
I had to take them; I don't see what else I could have done." Jerton said nothing, but he rather wondered what the lawful owner of the baggage would do. "Of course it was dreadful arriving at a strange hotel with the name of Kestrel-Smith, but it would have been worse to have arrived without luggage. Anyhow, I hate causing trouble."
The stranger passed on his way, and before Jerton had had time to assimilate his information he found his whole attention centred on an angry-looking lady who was making loud and fretful-seeming inquiries of the hotel clerks. "Has any luggage been brought here from the station by mistake, a dress- basket and dressing-case, with the name Kestrel-Smith? It can't be traced anywhere.
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