I'll see to him myself.

Well, good-day; and I'll call on Monday." And he turned to depart, with me in his hand.

In a minute, however, he came back.

"Would yer mind lending me some togs, sir, for a few minutes ?" said he; "I don't want no questions asked at the pawnshop." And he certainly did not look, in his present get-up, as the likeliest sort of owner of a silver watch.

The man of the house, however, lent him some clothes, in which he arrayed himself, and which so transformed him that any one would have taken him, not for the disreputable thieves' broker he was, but for the unfortunate decayed gentleman he professed to be.