CHAPTER XIII. INTRODUCING A SYNDICATE
ACROSS the way from Tilbury House, next door to the massive annex containing the offices of Tiny Tots , Sabbath Jottings , British Girlhood , the Boys’ Adventure Weekly and others of the more recently established of the Mammoth Publishing Company’s periodicals, there stands a ramshackle four-storied building of an almost majestic dinginess, which Lord Tilbury, but for certain regulations having to do with ancient lights, would have swallowed up years ago, as he had swallowed the rest of the street.
The first three floors of this building are occupied by firms of the pathetic type which cannot conceivably be supposed to do any business, and yet hang on with dull persistency for decade after decade. The
