railed-off burial ground, beside the cloister arches. He has met
Durdles at Sapsea's for no other purpose than to obtain access at
will to Mrs. Sapsea's monument. Later in the evening Jasper finds
Durdles more or less drunk, and being stoned by a gamin, "Deputy,"
a retainer of a tramp's lodging-house. Durdles fees Deputy, in
fact, to drive him home every night after ten. Jasper and Deputy
fall into feud, and Jasper has thus a new, keen, and omnipresent
enemy. As he walks with Durdles that worthy explains (in reply to
a question by Jasper), that, by tapping a wall, even if over six
feet thick, with his hammer, he can detect the nature of the
contents of the vault, "solid in hollow, and inside solid, hollow
again. Old 'un crumbled away in stone coffin, in vault." He can
also discover the presence of "rubbish left in that same six foot
space by Durdles's men." Thus, if a foreign body were introduced
into the Sapsea vault, Durdles could detect its presence by tapping
the outside wall. As Jasper's purpose clearly is to introduce a
foreign body--that of Edwin who stands between him and Rosa--into
Mrs. Sapsea's vault, this "gift" of Durdles is, for Jasper, an
uncomfortable discovery. He goes home, watches Edwin asleep, and
smokes opium.


THE LANDLESSES


Two new characters are now introduced, Neville and Helena Landless,
{1} twins, orphans, of Cingalese extraction, probably Eurasian;
very dark, the girl "almost of the gipsy type;" both are "fierce of
look." The young man is to read with Canon Crisparkle and live
with him; the girl goes to the same school as Rosa. The education