Chapter 33
Norgate walked into the club rather late that afternoon. Selingman and Prince Lenemaur were talking together in the little drawing-room. They called him in, and a few minutes later the Prince took his leave. "Well, that's all arranged," Norgate reported. "I have bought the three sites. There was only one thing the fellow down at Golder's Hill was anxious about." "And that?" "He hoped you weren't just going to put down a concrete floor and then shut the place up." Mr. Selingman's amiable imperturbability was for once disturbed. "What did the fellow mean?" he enquired. "Haven't an idea," Norgate replied, "but he made me stand on a pile of bricks and look at a strip of land which some one else had bought upon a hill close by. I suppose they want the factories built as quickly as possibl
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