"Georgie"
With amazed eyes he opened and read:
Dear Sir,
Re your invitation to watch you play this afternoon. I am sorry to say that it will be impossible for me or anyone else to do the same.
Re your insults of yesterday to me and professional football, I have taken the liberty of borrowing your motor for the day, and return it with thanks. I also borrowed the key of the coach-house from the groom William, having just treated him to four large whiskies. As manager of a motor-works, I was quite at home in your little car.
Trusting it did not inconvenience you,
Believe me,
Yours, etc.,
Georgie grew crimson’then he laughed.
"Well," he said, "I should like to meet him in a lonely lane. Perhaps I did let myself go a bit when he made his offer. But I got there, and we won the match. Nothing else matters."
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