23/23 I--in fact, I have an appointment with a gentleman I met at poor Bolsover's funeral." With no little difficulty Gammon led him away, and by means of an omnibus landed him at length near St.Martin's Church. No entreaty could induce the man to give his address. He protested that a few minutes' walk would bring him home, and as he seemed to have sobered sufficiently, Gammon left him sitting on the church steps--a strange object in his borrowed suit of mourning and his antiquated top hat.. |