G.S.to see after._" "That's it," he exclaimed; "Haygarth--intestate; Valentine Hawkehurst _not_ at Dorking, but working for my brother; Goodge--letters to be paid for.

It's all like the bits of mosaic that those antiquarian fellows are always finding in the ruins of Somebody's Baths; a few handfuls of coloured chips that look like rubbish, and can yet be patched into a perfect geometric design.

I'll hunt up a file of the _Times_ at the Burton Institution, and find out this Haygarth, if he is to be found there." The Burton Institution was a somewhat dingy temple devoted to the interests of science and literature, and next door to some baths that were very popular among the denizens of Bloomsbury.

People in quest of the baths were apt to ascend the classic flight of steps leading to the Institution, when they should have descended to a lowlier threshold lurking modestly by the side of that edifice.

The Baths and the Institution had both been familiar to Mr.Sheldon in that period of probation which he had spent in Fitzgeorge-street.