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It had taken Ar ten days to find suitable acconed the short lease on a flat in Stanhope Gardens when the agenton the floor above

The search for an appropriate office took even longer, because it needed to have an address that would convince Julius Hahn that Ar all his life

When John D Wood asked what price range he had in nment

Teeks later, Ar settled on an office that was even sh he couldn’t altogether accept the agent’s description of the 308-square-foot room with a lavatory on the floor above as ideal, perfect and unique, it did have two advantages The Fleet Street address, and a rent he could afford to pay—for the first three months

“If you’ll be kind enough to sign on the botto”

Arned the contract

“Good Then that’s settled,” said the young agent as he waited for the ink to dry “The rent for this property is, as you know, Captain Ar, £10 a week, payable quarterly in advance Perhaps you would be kind enough to let me have a check for £130”

“I’ll send one of my staff round with a check later this afternoon,” said Ar his bow tie

The agent hesitated for a moment, and then placed the contract in his briefcase “I’,” he said, handing over the keys to the smallest property on their books

Ar, when he rang FLE 6093 and heard the words “Ar house consisted of one roo cabinet and a recently installed telephone And as for “one of my staff,” one was correct Sally Carr had returned to London the week before, and had joined hi

Arent a check immediately because he had only recently opened an account with Barclays, and the bank was unwilling to issue a checkbook until it received the promised transfer of funds fro MC, as he kept reer

When the er confessed to his accounts clerk that after theirhe had expected a little ’s account

While he aiting for thecontacted Stephen Hallet at his offices in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and asked hi Communications as a private company That cost him another £10

No sooner had the company been formed than another unpayable bill landed on Sally’s desk This ti didn’t have a dozen bottles of claret to settle the account, so he invited Hallet to become company secretary

Once his funds had been deposited, Ar cleared all his debts, which left him with less than £40 in the account He told Sally that in future she should not pay any bills over £10 until they had received at least three demands for payment