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The train ran into the station and Fyne, julad to cut short the conversation We walked in

silence a little way, boarded a bus, then walked again I don't suppose

that since the days of his childhood, when surely he was taken to see the

Tower, he had been once east of Temple Bar He looked about him

sullenly; and when I pointed out in the distance the rounded front of the

Eastern Hotel at the bifurcation of two very broad, rey stucco tower above the lowly roofs of

the dirty-yelloo-storey houses, he only grunted disapprovingly

"I wouldn't lay toome," I

observed quietly as we approached that unattractive building "No irl who has just accepted his suit to be not well

balanced,--you know"

"Oh! Accepted his suit," hly convinced indeed "It may have been the other way about" And

then he added: "I ah with it"

I said that this was very praiseworthy but that a certain moderation of

stateuessed

that he was anxious to get his ave himself tilass door with the words Hotel Entrance on it It swung to

behind his back with no more noise than the snap of a toothless jaw

The absurd teot overhow long an e out would consent to

be co me there,

would consider my conduct incorrect, conceivably treat me with contempt