Chapter 4

He glanced across to a table on the other side of the room where the immaculately dressed Jerry sat. "I hardly know him," she said. Dick smiled. "He wants to know you better--but he is distinctly a person not to know. Jerry has been out all the night--went away just before supper and has only just come back. Your other party was dull, was it? Funny devil, this man Wirth. It was cheek of Mike Hennessey to invite you there." "Mike is rather a dear," she protested. "Mike is a crook--a pleasant crook, but a crook. Whil…