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On the next ht As yet no policeman had called for him, nor had any official intiainst hi down froround floor, which Mr Longestaffe called his study, and which Mr Melestaffe's house for the hich he did at ho, and often late at night after Lord Alfred had left him There were two heavy desk-tables in the rooround One of these the owner of the house had kept locked for his own purposes When the bargain for the te of the house had been estaffe were close friends Ter had just beenbetween the two gentlereatest ease Oh dear, yes! Mr Longestaffe could come whenever he pleased He, Melmotte, always left the house at ten and never returned till six The ladies would never enter that rooestaffe quite as master of the house as far as that rooestaffe could spare it, Mr Melmotte would take the key of one of the tables The ed very pleasantly

Mr Mel at his own table, took certain papers out of the drawers,--a bundle of letters and another of small documents From these, with very little examination, he took three or four,--two or three perhaps froas-burner and letting the ashes fall into a large china plate Then he blew the ashes into the yard through the openThis he did to all these documents but one This one he put bit by bit into histhe paper into a pulp till he sed it When he had done this, and had re-locked his own drawers, he walked across to the other table, Mr Longestaffe's table, and pulled the handle of one of the drawers It opened;--and then, without touching the contents, he again closed it He then knelt down and examined the lock, and the hole above into which the bolt of the lock ran Having done this he again closed the drawer, drew back the bolt of the door, and, seating hi the bell which was close to hand The servant found hi letters after his usual hurried fashion, and was told that he was ready for breakfast He always breakfasted alone with a heap of newspapers around hiraph alluding to himself in the 'Pulpit,' and read it without a quiver in his face or the slightest change in his colour There was no one to see hi under a resolve that at no moment, either when alone, or in a crowd, or when suddenly called upon for words,--not even when the policemen with their first hints of arrest should co of a single muscle, or the loss of a drop of blood froh it, always ar It had to be done, and he would do it