It was number thirty-one.

Then the gent crawls out and hands me five bob--two 'arf-crowns--and then he helps the lady out, and away they waddles to the doorway and I see them start up the stairs very slow--regler Pilgrim's Progress.

And that was the last I see of 'em." Thorndyke wrote down the cabman's statement verbatim together with his own questions, and then asked: "Can you give us any description of the gentleman ?" "The gent," said Wilkins, was a very respectable-looking gent, though he did look as if he'd had a drop of something short, and small blame to him on a day like that.

But he was all there, and he knew what was the proper fare for a foggy evening, which is more than some of 'em do.

He was a elderly gent, about sixty, and he wore spectacles, but he didn't seem to be able to see much through 'em.