CHAPTER 12.
The Letting of the Room It will be remembered that when the men separated, Owen going to the office to see Rushton, and the others on their several ways, Easton and Slyme went together.
During the day Easton had found an opportunity of speaking to him about the bedroom.

Slyme was about to leave the place where he was at present lodging, and he told Easton that although he had almost decided on another place he would take a look at the room.

At Easton's suggestion they arranged that Slyme was to accompany him home that night.

As the former remarked, Slyme could come to see the place, and if he didn't like it as well as the other he was thinking of taking, there was no harm done.
Ruth had contrived to furnish the room.

Some of the things she had obtained on credit from a second-hand furniture dealer.