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The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent.
Lieutenant Drummond Keith was a man about whom conversation always burst like a thunderstorm the moment he left the room.

This arose from many separate touches about him.

He was a light, loose person, who wore light, loose clothes, generally white, as if he were in the tropics; he was lean and graceful, like a panther, and he had restless black eyes.
He was very impecunious.

He had one of the habits of the poor, in a degree so exaggerated as immeasurably to eclipse the most miserable of the unemployed; I mean the habit of continual change of lodgings.