It is old Lowestoft, and"-- here he took the lid from the dealer's hand--"yes, without a crack or blemish--yes, old Lowestoft--worth, I should say, ten or more pounds.

They are giving large sums for these things in London.

Perhaps you have not made a specialty of china." Otto had now forgotten the tureen and was scrutinizing the speaker, wondering what kind of a man he really was--this fellow who looked and spoke like a person of position, knew the value of curios at sight, and yet who had confessed the night before to being behind with his rent and anxious to sell his belongings to keep off the street.

Then the doubt, universal in the minds of second-hand dealers, arose.

"Come along vid me and tell me some more.