This was not the bound of my present discovery, for I was gifted with that confidence which would make me set on foot inquiries in the neighbourhood.

I looked around for a suitable medium of intelligence.

The opposite and adjoining houses were small, and apparently occupied by persons of an indigent class.

At one of these was a sign denoting it to be the residence of a tailor.

Seated on a bench at the door was a young man, with coarse uncombed locks, breeches knee-unbuttoned, stockings ungartered, shoes slipshod and unbuckled, and a face unwashed, gazing stupidly from hollow eyes.