long ago. Why, sir, this is one of those to whom my mother bade me look
to get my first ways of London well laid out."

"These are some of the ways of London," said Pembroke, grimly.

"But is there no fashion in which this matter can be accommodated?"

Pembroke and Castleton looked at each other, rose and passed him, each
raising his hat and bowing courteously.

"Your servant, sir," said the one; and, "Your servant, sir," said the
other.




CHAPTER V

DIVERS EMPLOYMENTS OF JOHN LAW


"And when shall I send these garments to your Lordship?" asked the
haberdasher, with whom Law was having speech on the morning following
the first night in London.

"Two weeks from to-day," said Law, "in the afternoon, and not later than
four o'clock. I shall have need for them."

"Impossible!" said the tradesman, hitherto obsequious, but now smitten
with the conviction regarding the limits of human possibilities.