"I wonder where we shall fly. It will
do us both a lot of good. And I shall insure my life for a small
amount in my mother's interest. . . . Benham, I think I will, after
all, take a whiskey. . . . Life is short. . . ."
He did so and Benham strolled to the window and stood looking out
upon the great court.
"We might do something this afternoon," said Benham.
"Splendid idea," reflected Billy over his whiskey. "Living hard and
thinking hard. A sort of Intelligentsia that is BLOODED. . . . I
shall, of course, come as far as I can with you."
13
In one of the bureau drawers that White in this capacity of literary
executor was examining, there were two documents that carried back
right to these early days. They were both products of this long
wide undergraduate argumentation that had played so large a part in
the making of Benham. One recorded the phase of maximum opposition,
and one was the outcome of the concluding approach of the
antagonists. They were debating club essays. One had been read to
a club in Pembroke, a club called the ENQUIRERS, of which White also
had been a member, and as he turned it over he found the
circumstances of its reading coming back to his memory.
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