'7 Fig Tree Court, Temple'-- What a jolly address! Are there fig trees in the Temple ...

still?
P'raps descended from cuttings or layers the poor Templars brought from the Holy Land." David returned to Fig Tree Court and his studies of criminology.

But his body and mind thrilled with the experiences of the afternoon; and the musty records in works of repellent binding and close, unsympathetic print of nineteenth century forgery, poisoning, assaults-on-the-person, and cruelty-to-children cases for once failed to hold his close attention.

He sat all through the evening after a supper of bread and cheese and ginger beer in his snug, small room, furnished principally with well-filled book-shelves.

The room had a glowing fire and a green-shaded reading lamp.