Chapter 30

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​⁠Louis began his stratagem by calling at the tower one afternoon, as if on the impulse of the moment.

After a friendly chat with Swithin, whom he found there (having watched him enter), Louis invited the young man to dine the same evening at the House, that he might have an opportunity of showing him some interesting old scientific works in folio, which, according to Louis's account, he had stumbled