Grindley junior, not knowing what to say, put his arms round the little old man.

And in this way Tommy’s brilliant scheme fell through and came to naught. Instead, old Grindley visited once again the big house in Nevill’s Court, and remained long closeted with old Solomon in the office on the second floor. It was late in the evening when Solomon opened the door and called upstairs to Janet Helvetia to come down.

“I used to know you long ago,” said Hezekiah Grindley, rising. “You were quite a little girl then.”

Later, the troublesome Sauce disappeared entirely, cut out by newer flavours. Grindley junior studied the printing business. It almost seemed as if old Appleyard had been waiting but for this. Some six months later they found him dead in his counting-house. Grindley junior became the printer and publisher of Good Humour.