law in Staple Inn, where Grewgious also dwells, and incessantly
watches Neville out of his window.

About six months later, Helena Landless is to join Neville, who is
watched at intervals by Jasper, who, again, is watched by Grewgious
as the precentor lurks about Staple Inn.


DICK DATCHERY


About the time when Helena leaves Cloisterham for town, a new
character appears in Cloisterham, "a white-headed personage with
black eyebrows, BUTTONED UP IN A TIGHTISH BLUE SURTOUT, with a buff
waistcoat, grey trowsers, and something of a military air." His
shock of white hair was unusually thick and ample. This man, "a
buffer living idly on his means," named Datchery, is either, as Mr.
Proctor believed, Edwin Drood, or, as Mr. Walters thinks, Helena
Landless. By making Grewgious drop the remark that Bazzard, his
clerk, a moping owl of an amateur tragedian, "is off duty here," at
his chambers, Dickens hints that Bazzard is Datchery. But that is
a mere false scent, a ruse of the author, scattering paper in the
wrong place, in this long paper hunt.

As for Helena, Mr. Walters justly argues that Dickens has marked
her for some important part in the ruin of Jasper. "There was a
slumbering gleam of fire in her intense dark eyes. Let whomsoever
it most concerned look well to it." Again, we have been told that
Helena had high courage. She had told Jasper that she feared him
"in no circumstances whatever." Again, we have learned that in