[pg 20] CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. “By the way,” said Escott, a couple of days later, “how is your mysterious man getting on? I haven’t seen him myself yet.” “By the way,” “how is your mysterious man getting on? I haven’t seen him myself yet.” Sherlaw laughed. “He’s turning out a regular sportsman, by George! For the first day he was more or less in the same state in which he arrived. Then he began to wake up and ask questions. ‘What the devil is this place?’ he said to me in the evening. It may sound profane, but he was very polite, I assure you. I told him, and he sort of raised his eyebrows, smiled, and thanked me like a Prime Minister acknowledging an obligation. Since then he has steadily developed sporting, not to say frisky, tastes. He went out this morning, and in five minutes had his arm round one of the prettiest nurses’ waist. And she didn’t seem to mind much either, by George!” “He’s turning out a regular sportsman, by George! For the first day he was more or less in the same state in which he arrived. Then he began to wake up and ask questions. ‘What the devil is this place?’ he said to me in the evening. It may sound profane, but he was very polite, I assure you. I told him, and he sort of raised his eyebrows, smiled, and thanked me like a Prime Minister acknowledging an obligation. Since then he has steadily developed sporting, not to say frisky, tastes. He went out this morning, and in five minutes had his arm round one of the prettiest nurses’ waist. And she didn’t seem to mind much either, by George!” ‘What the devil is this place?’ “He’ll want a bit of looking after, I take it.” “He’ll want a bit of looking after, I take it.” “Seems to me he is uncommonly capable of taking care of himself. The rest of the establishment will want looking after, though.”
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