CHAPTER XVI

BACK IN town and raining. It was always raining in London, he complained savagely as he swung aboard a convenient bus. He had left London under blue skies, with the parks all green and gold and filled with thousands and thousands of children being busily happy. He came back to find the roads like mirrors, and every tree dripping melancholy drops. If he had come back to find the town basking in sunlight, he would have had a complaint against that also. All sorts of things annoyed him. Mr. Minns, Tommy’s butler, had …