The Voice on the Wire

Mr. Shirley is waiting for you in the grill-room sir. Just step this way sir and down the stairs. The large man awkwardly followed the servant to the cosey grill-room on the lower floor of the club house. He felt that every man of the little groups about the Flemish tables must be saying: What's he doing here? I wish Monty Shirley would meet me once in a while in the back room of a ginmill where I'd feel comfortable muttered the unhappy visitor. This joint is too classy. But that's his game to play -