But we must search other registries within access of Aldersgate-street before we give up the idea of finding such entries in that neighbourhood." "And what is to be the next move ?" "The hunting-up of all descendants of this William and Caroline Mary Meynell, wheresoever such descendants are to be found.

We are now altogether off the Haygarth and Judson scent, and have to beat a new covert." "Good!" exclaimed Valentine more cheerfully.

"How is the new covert to be beaten ?" "We must start from Aldersgate-street.

Meynell of Aldersgate-street must have been a responsible man, and it will be hard if there is no record of him extant in all the old topographical histories of wards, without and within, which cumber the shelves of your dry-as-dust libraries.

We must hunt up all available books; and when we've got all the information that books can give us, we can go in upon hearsay evidence, which is always the most valuable in these cases." "That means another encounter with ancient mariners--I beg your pardon--oldest inhabitants," said Valentine with a despondent yawn.
"Well, I suppose that sort of individual is a little less obtuse when he lives within the roar of the great city's thunder than when he vegetates in the dismal outskirts of a manufacturing town.