7/24 Most likely amongst those friends was the one he sought to-night. Half way along the street of milliners, he stopped before a house where a famous scholar had his lodging. The room was lined with books from floor to ceiling. Chayne mounted a ladder and took down from a high corner some volumes bound simply in brown cloth. They were volumes of the "Alpine Journal." He had chosen those which dated back from twenty years to a quarter of a century. |