Chapter 24: The Bottle of Wine

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌⁠As regards Theodore Racksole, who was to have caught his man from the outside of the cellar, he made his way as rapidly as possible from the wine-cellars, up to the ground floor, out of the hotel by the quadrangle, through the quadrangle, and out into the top of Salisbury Lane. Now, owing to the vastness of the structure of the Grand Babylon, the mere distance thus to be traversed amounted to a li