"I was just passing this way, and thought I'd see how you were getting on.

No orders, I suppose?
None of your young gentlemen want a nice cheap suit?
Pleased to make you a consideration for the introduction.

If one or two of you joined together and took a piece, could do the lot very reasonably indeed." So, not only was I to be exposed before my employers to-morrow, but meanwhile my movements were being watched, for fear I should run away, I suppose.
"Jack," said I, as we walked along, "I believe you are right after all." "How ?" said Jack.
"The only thing to do is to tell the partners all about it, before Shoddy comes to-morrow!" "Well," said Jack, "I don't see it could be much worse than letting them hear all about it from him." With which consoling but desperate resolution we proceeded.
To beguile the time, we went round by Style Street.
A youth was standing having his boots blacked as we came up.

We thought we recognised the figure--though till he turned round we could not recall his name.

Then to our surprise we saw it was Flanagan.
But such a swell as he was! He had alarmed me more than once by the grandeur of his attire when I had met him at the parties of the "usual lot." I had seen him rarely since.