Before sitting down to it, he opens his corner-cupboard door; takes his bit of chalk from its shelf; adds one thick line to the score, extending from the top of the cupboard door to the bottom; and then falls to with an appetite.
APPENDIX: FRAGMENT OF "THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD" When Forster was just finishing his biography of Dickens, he found among the leaves of one of the novelist's other manuscripts certain loose slips in his writing, "on paper only half the size of that used for the tale, so cramped, interlined, and blotted as to be nearly illegible." These proved, upon examination, to contain a suggested chapter for _Edwin Drood_, in which Sapsea, the auctioneer, appears as the principal figure, surrounded by a group of characters new to the story.

That chapter, being among the last things Dickens wrote, seems to contain so much of interest that it may be well to reprint it here .-- ED.
HOW MR.

SAPSEA CEASED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE EIGHT CLUB TOLD BY HIMSELF Wishing to take the air, I proceeded by a circuitous route to the Club, it being our weekly night of meeting.

I found that we mustered our full strength.

We were enrolled under the denomination of the Eight Club.