WESTMINSTER HALL The parliamentary committee pursued their animated inquiries respecting the Limehouse bridge all through the sultry month of July.

How Mr.Vigil must have hated Mr.Nogo, and the M'Carthy Desmond! how sick he must have been of that eternal witness who, with imperturbable effrontery, answered the 2,250 questions put to him without admitting anything! To Mr.Vigil it was all mere nonsense, sheer waste of time.

Had he been condemned to sit for eight days in close contiguity to the clappers of a small mill, he would have learnt as much as he did from the witnesses before the committee.

Nevertheless he went through it and did not lose his temper.

He smiled sweetly on Mr.Nogo every morning, and greeted the titled Irishman with his easy familiar nod, as though the continued sitting of this very committee was of all things to him the most desirable.