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It was opened, almost immediately, by Corporal Richard Roe himself,

who stared a e hand

"What, is it you, sir?" he exclaimed, "for a moment I didn't know ye

Step in, sir, step in, we're proud to see ye"

So saying, he ushered Barnabas doo steps into the s chamber that he remembered, with its rows upon rows of

shelves whereon a whole regilasses were drawn

up in neat array, "dressed" and marshalled as if on parade; it was

indeed a place of superlative tidiness where everything seemed to be

in a perpetual state of neatness and order

In a great elbow chair beside the ingle, with a cushion at his back

and another beneath one foot, sat Mr Shrig puffing at a pipe and

with his little reader open on the table at his elbow He looked a

little thinner and paler than usual, and Barnabas noticed that one

leg athed in bandages, but his suileless and his clasp as warreeted each other

"You

but natur' forbids, it can't be done on account o' this here leg o'

h the stah better than it ht on