Yet I looked on him to-day with more consideration; his was a repulsive form of righteousness, grim and gloomy, but it was righteousness, or seemed such to me against the background of iniquity which threw it up in strong relief.

I spoke to him kindly, but taking no heed of my advances he came straight up to me and said brusquely: "The woman who came to your lodging in London is here in Dover.

She bids you be silent and come quickly.

I can lead you." I started and stared at him.

I had set "Finis" to that chapter; was fate minded to overrule me and write more?
Strange also that Jonah Wall should play Mercury! "She here in Dover?
For what ?" I asked as calmly as I could.
"I don't doubt, for sin," he answered uncompromisingly.
"Yet you can lead me to her house ?" said I with a smile.
"I can," said he, in sour disregard of my hinted banter.
"I won't go," I declared.
"The matter concerns you, she said, and might concern another." It was early, the Court would not be moving for two hours yet.