Good-day." The same scene was practically repeated the following month.

It was an English saddle this time, St.George having two.

And it was the same unknown gentleman who figured as "the much-obliged friend," Pawson conducting the negotiations and securing the owner's consent.

On this occasion Gadgem sold the saddle outright to the keeper of a livery stable, whose bills he collected, paying the difference between the asking and the selling price out of his own pocket.
Gradually, however, St.George awoke to certain unsuspected features of what was going on around him.

The discovery was made one morning when the go-between was closeted in Pawson's lower office, Pawson conducting the negotiations in St.George's dining-room.