Stop! I will consult my clerk! Dick!" The infant appeared.
"I believe that I have no appointment for this morning ?" "No, Sir," said Dick, with a twinkle in his eye.

"One moment, Sir, I will consult the book," and he vanished, to return presently with the information that Mr.Short's time was not under any contributions that day.
"Very good," said Mr.Short; "then make an entry of an appointment with Mr.John Short and Mr.Meeson, at two precisely." "Yes, Sir," said Dick, departing to the unaccustomed task.
As soon as Eustace had departed from Tweedledum to Tweedledee, or, in other words, from James, barrister, to John, solicitor, Dick was again summoned and bade go to a certain Mr.Thomson on the next floor.

Mr.
Thomson had an excellent library, which had come to him by will.

On the strength of this bequest, he had become a barrister-at-law, and the object of Dick's visit was to request the loan of the eighth volume of the statutes revised, containing the Wills Act of 1 Vic., cap.

26, "Brown on Probate," "Dixon on Probate," and "Powles on Brown," to the study of which valuable books Mr.James Short devoted himself earnestly whilst awaiting his client's return.
Meanwhile, Eustace had made his way in a two-penny 'bus to one of those busy courts in the City where Mr.John Short practised as a solicitor.
Mr.Short's office was, Eustace discovered by referring to a notice board, on the seventh floor of one of the tallest houses he had ever seen.