a lot of change these twenty years. It's Rip Van
Winkle come real."

"It's Bellamy," said Warming. "There has been
a lot of change certainly. And, among other changes,
I have changed. I am an old man."

Isbister hesitated, and then feigned a belated surprise.
"I shouldn't have thought it."

"I was forty-three when his bankers -- you remember
you wired to his bankers -- sent on to me."

"I got their address from the cheque book in his
pocket," said Isbister.

"Well, the addition is not difficult," said Warming.

There was another pause, and then Isbister gave
way to an unavoidable curiosity. "He may go on
for years yet," he said, and had a moment of hesitation.
"We have to consider that. His affairs, you
know, may fall some day into the hands of -- someone
else, you know."

"That, if you will believe me, Mr. Isbister, is one
of the problems most constantly before my mind. We
happen to be -- as a matter of fact, there are no very
trustworthy connections of ours. It is a grotesque
and unprecedented position."