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-- on lease certainly ; but he would find that puppy here next time he visited Hammersmith , possibly firmer in his gait and nothing like so round over the stomach . And there was the cherry-tart , and the crust had rose beautiful . Michael got home very late , and was professionally engaged all the week with his father . He saw town , but nothing of his neighbours , returning always towards midnight intensely ready for bed . By the time he chanced across our friend Dave on the following Saturday , other scenes of London Life had obscured his memory of that interview at The Pigeons and its sequel . So , as it happened , Sapps Court heard nothing about either . The death of Miss Hawkins 's father , a month later , did not add a contemptible manslaughter to Thornton Daverill 's black list of crimes .