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`` I have landed but an hour ago , '' Harry said , `` and can buy no clothes to-day ; but if you or mine host here , who is nearer my size , have a decent suit which you can sell me , I will pay you double the sum it cost . '' The landlord at once agreed to the terms , and five minutes later Harry , clad in the sober garb of a decent tradesman , mounted the cart . The horse was not a fast one , and the roads were bad . It was nigh six o'clock before they reached London . Paying Fletcher the sum agreed upon , Harry walked rapidly westward . Cromwell was abiding in a house in Pall Mall . Upon Harry arriving there he was asked his business .