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`` He has rejected me as a coadjutor , '' he thought , as he went back to his cab after having copied the advertisement ; `` he shall have me as an antagonist . '' `` Omega-street , Chelsea , next call , '' he cried to the driver ; and was soon beyond the confines of Bloomsbury , and rattling away towards the border-land of Belgravia . He had completed his search of the newspapers at ten minutes past twelve , and at twenty minutes to one he presented himself at the lodging-house in Omega-street , where he found Captain Paget , in whose `` promoting '' business there happened to be a lull just now . With this gentleman he had a long interview ; and the result of that interview was the departure of the Captain by the two o'clock express for Ullerton . Thus had it happened that Valentine Hawkehurst and his patron encountered each other on the platform of Ullerton station . _ Oct. 7th , Midnight _ . I was so fortunate as to get away from Spotswold this morning very soon after the completion of my researches in the vestry , and at five o'clock in the afternoon I found myself once more in the streets of Ullerton .