Scared at the spectacle he presented, he endeavoured to
maka such a toilet as might, in a certain degree, improve Ht
and tl)ia Qnisb^di not knowing what to do — bating to b^



fttotie and giving up all thoughts of sleep — he once liiore went
out into the streets. What had happened to Mr. "Wyndham
Flitter was the first thing he was anxious to learn; and he
mechanically bent his steps towards Leicester Square, where,
from the house he had quitted, he saw the police still engaged
in moving some of the apparatus of the gaming tables. His
presence did not attract any attention. They looked upon
him as some late reveller returning home; and one of them
went so far as to inform him that th<;y had made a capture of
gamblers that very night, and had them all in the station
house.
" Were any people taken besides the gang themselves? "
asked Philip.
" None as we can find out," replied the policeman, who
had accepted an invitation, quietly, to take a drop of some-
thing at a neighbouring gin-shop. " They said there had
been two, but they had both got away. I expect they was
all of a feather, though."

Philip's mind was to a certain extent relieved. Flitter had
evidently made good his escape, and he determined upon
joining him at his hotel; so he went on at once to London
Bridge.
A coffee-room is not altogether an exciting place early in
the morning; nor are waiters particularly lively at this period.
On the present occasion, their denial of all knowledge of Mr.
