CHAPTER XVI
IN WHICH THE MOUNTAIN COMES TO MAHOMET
Mr. Philip found an imperious mandate from Grosvenor
Square had been laid beside his silver cigar-box
when he returned to the Albany at a quarter past two
by the morning. It ran:—
"Dear Philip,—Your father desires to see you most
particularly upon important business at ten o'clock to-morrow
morning.
"Your loving Mother."
"She means this mornin', and I shan't be up if I
don't go to bed soon," said the heir to the barony, sitting
down before the remains of the fire to consider the
situation in all its bearings.
The melancholy consequence was that not all the King's horses and not all the King's men, including the young man's body servant, were able to wake him until a few minutes before eleven, in spite of the fact that a special messenger had been round from the Home Department.
If, however, Mahomet declines to move, it is time
