Chapter 3: August the Twenty-Fifth

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​⁠Five days after the above-mentioned dialogue took place they went to London, and, with scarcely a minute’s pause, to the solicitors’ offices in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

They alighted opposite one of the characteristic entrances about the place—a gate which was never, and could never be, closed, flanked by lamp-standards carrying no lamp. Rust was the only active agent to be seen there at this time of