A short while afterwards, Campion, who for some time past had found the
organisation of Barbara's Building had far outgrown his individual
power of control, came to me with a proposal that I should undertake the
management of the institution under his general directorship. As he knew
of my financial affairs and of my praiseworthy but futile efforts to
live on two hundred a year, he offered me another two hundred by way of
salary and quarters in the Building. I accepted, moved the salvage of my
belongings from Victoria Street to Lambeth, and settled down to the work
for which a mirth-loving Providence had destined me from my cradle.
When I told Agatha, she nearly fainted.
CHAPTER XXIII
No sooner had I moved into Barbara's Building and was preparing to begin
my salaried duties than I received news which sent me off post haste
to Berlin. And just as it was not I but Anastasius Papadopoulos who
discovered Captain Vauvenarde, so, in this case, it was Dale who
discovered Lola.
He burst in upon me one day, flourishing a large visiting-card, which he
flung down on the table before my eyes.
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