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It is of no good to try to describe the effect it had on their minds , beyond saying that it made all three of them absolutely resolute that Frank should by no possible means escape them . The full dramatic situation of it all they scarcely appreciated , though it soaked more and more into them gradually as they waited -- two of them in the Men 's Club just round the corner , and the third , shivering and stamping , under the arch . -LRB- An unemployed man , known to the clergyman , had been set as an additional sentry on the steps of the Men 's Club , whose duty it would be , the moment the signal was given from the arch that Frank was coming , to call the other two instantly from inside . Further , the clergyman -- as has been related -- had been round three times since four o'clock to Turner Road , and had taken Jimmie into his pay . -RRB- The situation was really rather startling , even to the imperturbable Dick . This pleasant young man , to whom he had begun to feel very strangely tender during the last month or two , now tramping London streets -LRB- or driving a van -RRB- , in his miserable old clothes described to him by the clergyman , or working at the jam factory , was actually no one else at this moment but the new Lord Talgarth -- with all that that implied . Merefield was his , the big house in Berkeley Square was his ; the moor in Scotland ... .