Claudius told his old landlord--his _philister_, as he would have called him--that he was going away on his customary foot tour for a month or so.

He packed a book and a few things in his knapsack and joined Mr.
Barker.

To Claudius in his simplicity there was nothing incongruous in his travelling as a plain student in the company of the exquisitely-arrayed New Yorker, and the latter was far too much a man of the world to care what his companion wore.

He intended that the Doctor should be introduced to the affectionate skill of a London tailor before he was much older, and he registered a vow that the long yellow hair should be cut.

But these details were the result of his showman's intuition; personally, he would as readily have travelled with Claudius had he affected the costume of a shoeblack.