If the "boys" had ever got a peep at that novel, I had been lost indeed! IV Yea, verily we were in London.

Presently Artemus Ward and "the show" arrived in town.

He took a lodging over an apothecary's just across the way from Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, where he was to lecture.

We had been the best of friends, were near of an age, and only round-the-corner apart we became from the first inseparable.

I introduced him to the distinguished scientific set into which chance had thrown me, and he introduced me to a very different set that made a revel of life at the Savage Club.
I find by reference to some notes jotted down at the time that the last I saw of him was the evening of the 21st of December, 1866.