And I shall be in the works all day now, and every day: come to me directly, if there is any thing fresh." Henry's forge was cold, by this time; so he struck work, and spent the afternoon in securing his two rooms with the Bramah locks.

He also took Cheetham's advice in another particular.

Instead of walking home, he took a cab, and got the man to drive rapidly to a certain alley.

There he left the cab, ran down the alley, and turned a corner, and went home round about.

He doubled like a hare, and dodged like a criminal evading justice.
But the next morning he felt a pleasing sense of security when he opened his forge-room with the Bramah key, and found no letters nor threats of any kind had been able to penetrate.
Moreover, all this time you will understand he was visiting "Woodbine Cottage" twice a week, and carving Grace Carden's bust.
Those delightful hours did much to compensate him for his troubles in the town, and were even of some service to him in training him to fence with the trades of Hillsborough: for at "Woodbine Villa" he had to keep an ardent passion within the strict bounds of reverence, and in the town he had constantly to curb another passion, wrath, and keep it within the bounds of prudence.