Wait till I come back, and I'll see about it.' 'But we trust, Mr.Heldar, that you do not intend to sever your connection with us ?' Dick's business in life was the study of faces, and he watched the speaker keenly.

'That man means something,' he said.

'I'll do no business till I've seen Torpenhow.

There's a big deal coming.' So he departed, making no promises, to his one little room by the Docks.

And that day was the seventh of the month, and that month, he reckoned with awful distinctness, had thirty-one days in it! It is not easy for a man of catholic tastes and healthy appetites to exist for twenty-four days on fifty shillings.