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"I know this old gentle him; "that is, I have met him a hundred ti what he was before he came to

be what he is He haunts restaurants and such places, and has an odd

way of lurking in corners or getting behind a door whenever

practicable, and holding out his hand with some little article in it

which he wishes you to buy The eye of the world seeh he necessarily lives so much in it I never expected to see

hi of his history?" asked Hollingsworth

"Not a circu curious

in it I take him to be a harmless sort of a person, and a tolerably

honest one; but hisso furtive, remind me of those of a

rat,--a rat without the mischief, the fierce eye, the teeth to bite

with, or the desire to bite See, now! He e of bushes, and approach us on the other side of our clump of

rass, indicating that

he had arrived within a few feet of where we Sat