resultant sensation of cleanliness. He paid great attention to his
attire, modelling himself, as far as he could, on young Rowlatt, the
architect, on whom he occasionally called to report progress. He
bought such neckties and collars as Rowlatt wore and submitted them
for Jane's approval. She thought them vastly genteel. He also
entertained her with whatever jargon of art talk he managed to pick
up. Thus, though the urchin gave himself airs and invested himself
with affectations, which rendered him intolerable to all of his own
social status, except the placid Mrs. Seddon and the adoring Jane,
he was under the continuous influence of a high ambition. It made
him ridiculous, but it preserved him from vicious and vulgar things.
If you are conscious of being a prince in disguise qualifying for
butterfly entrance into your kingdom, it behoves you to behave in a
princely manner, not to consort with lewd fellows and not to neglect
opportunities for education. You owe to yourself all the good that
you can extract from the world. Acting from this point of view, and
guided by the practical advice of young Rowlatt, he attended evening
classes, where he gulped down knowledge hungrily. So, what with
sitting and studying and backward and forward journeying, and
educating Jane, and practising the accomplishments of a prince, and
sleeping the long sound sleep of a tired youngster, Paul had no time
to think of evil. He was far too much absorbed in himself.

Meanwhile, of Bludston not a sign. For all that he had heard of
search being made for him, he might have been a runaway kitten.
Sometimes he wondered what steps the Buttons had taken in order to
find him. If they bad communicated with the police, surely, at some
stage of their journey, Barney Bill would have been held up and
questioned. But had they even troubled to call in the police? Barney
Bill thought not, and Paul agreed. The police were very unpopular in