to-night. Do you like them with red or green doors?"

Without waiting for their reply, which would probably have been
of the caustic and provocative type, I turned down the path I had
not trodden for some three years. At one of the bends I looked
up and saw them moving north along the coast-line.

I had the cove to myself, and was soon in my bathing-dress. The
water was magnificent. I swam out about forty yards, and turned
just in time to see Berry & Co. disappear in the distance,
apparently descending into a neighbouring cove. After a rest
on a rock, I set out to swim round and join them. It was further
than I thought, and I was glad to wade out of the water and lie
down on the sand in the sun. No sign of the others, by the way.
But hereabouts the coast was very ragged. It must have been the
next cove they were making for.

"Quite still, please," said somebody, and the next moment a
camera clicked.

"You might have given me time to moisten the lips," said I.

"I doubt if it would have done any good."

"Thanks, very much. By the way, I suppose you're The Daily
Glass? How did you find me out?"

"Rumour travels apace, sir."

"And I had been congratulating myself on eluding the Press since