“ ‘Hush! I have found him at last.’

“ ‘No!’ said the attorney. ‘Well done, my dear sir, well done.’

“ ‘He lies concealed in a wretched lodging in Camden Town,’ said Heyling. ‘Perhaps it is as well we did lose sight of him, for he has been living alone there, in the most abject misery, all the time, and he is poor⁠—very poor.’

“ ‘Very good,’ said the attorney. ‘You will have the caption made tomorrow, of course?’

“ ‘Yes,’ replied Heyling. ‘Stay! No! The next day. You are surprised at my wishing to postpone it,’ he added, with a ghastly smile; ‘but I had forgotten. The next day is an anniversary in his life: let it be done then.’

“ ‘Very good,’ said the attorney. ‘Will you write down instructions for the officer?’