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Number Five St James's Square was to let; its many ere

blank and shuttered, its portal, which scarcely a week ago had been

besieged by Fashion, was barred and bolted, the Gentlelory of Number Five St

James's Square had departed utterly

Barnabas paused to let his gaze wander over it, fro a little bitterly, buried his chin in the folds of his

belcher neckerchief and thrusting his hands deep into his pockets,

turned and went his way

And as he went, s still, and still a little bitterly, he needs

uely wonder what had become of all that Polite

notepaper, and all those Fashionable cards, eed,

and otherwise, that had been wont to pour upon hihly susceptible and eloquent legs

of the Gentle and the square seemed deserted save for a

solitaryainst the wall under the shade of the trees in the middle

of the square, and seemed lost in conte traversed Charles Street and turned into

the Haying dejectedly after hi the crowded Strand, hurried on through the bustling

throng; but just beyond Telimpse of the vivid

neckcloth on the opposite side of the road Up Chancery Lane and

across Holborn went Barnabas, yet, as he turned down Leather Lane,

there, sure enough, was the man in the neckcloth as dejected as ever,

but not twelve yards behind