“That struck me as rather queer,” replied Reggie, “but he explained by saying that he was on a secret mission for his firm. Awfully mysterious and all that, don’t you know. Of course, the more mysterious he was the more curious I became. I suppose he figured on that. Anyway, after a lot of hinting and fencing about, he came right out one day and said that he was going to take me into his confidence, that I was too good a fellow to leave on the outside when I might get in on the ground floor, and a lot of rot like that, don’t you know.”