done to gain time. Hark ye! Was that youth alone?”

“All alone, your worship.”

“Art sure?”

“Sure, your worship.”

“Collect thy scattered wits — bethink thee — take time, man.”

After a moment’s thought, the servant said —

“When he came, none came with him; but now I remember me that as the two stepped into the throng of the Bridge, a ruffian-looking man plunged out from some near place; and just as he was joining them — ”

“What then? — out with it!” thundered the impatient Hendon, interrupting.