CHAPTER IX

THE SHADOW OF ROYAL That evening Alf called at Bobby's lodgings and apologised frankly. "I know I said what I shouldn't, sir," he admitted. "But it fairly tortured me to see you along of a chap like that Burt." "He's all right," said Bobby coldly. Alf smiled that sickly smile of his. "Ah, you're innocent, Mr. Chislehurst," he said. "Only wish I knew as little as you do." Alf in fact was moving on and up again in his career; walking warily in consequence, and determined to do nothing that should endanger his posit…