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The garden and gravel approach, as seen from the ts of the

wainscoted parlor at Stone Court, were never in better tri Featherstone stood, with his hands behind hirounds as their master But it seemed doubtful whether

he looked out for the sake of conte his back to a

person who stood in the s considerably

apart and his hands in his trouser-pockets: a person in all respects a

contrast to the sleek and cool Rigg He was a man obviously on the way

towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with ray in his bushy

whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to

disadvantage the soerer, ould ai his own remarks on any other person's perfor than the performance itself

His name was John Raffles, and he so when he did so, that he was once taught

by Leonard Lamb of Finsbury rote BA after his nainated the witticis that celebrated principal

Ba-Lamb Such were the appearance and mental flavor of Mr Raffles,

both of which seemed to have a stale odor of travellers' rooms in the

commercial hotels of that period

"Co tone, "look at it