Staines is his d--d name, is it ?" He drove back crestfallen, bitter, and, for once in his life, heart-sick, and drew up at his lodgings.

Here he found attendants waiting to receive him.
A sheriff's officer took his dogcart and horse under a judgment; the disturbance this caused collected a tiny crowd, gaping and grinning, and brought Phoebe's white face and eyes swollen with weeping to the window.
Falcon saw her and brazened it out.

"Take them," said he, with an oath.
"I'll have a better turn-out by to-morrow, breakfast-time." The crowd cheered him for his spirit.
He got down, lit a cigar, chaffed the officer and the crowd, and was, on the whole, admired.
Then another officer, who had been hunting him in couples with the other, stepped forward and took HIM, for the balance of a judgment debt.
Then the swell's cigar fell out of his mouth, and he was seriously alarmed.

"Why, Cartwright," said he, "this is too bad.

You promised not to see me this month.