HICH, NOW OR TWENTY
ODD YEARS AGO? HOW SALLY FOLLOWED JEREMIAH OUT. WHAT A LOT
OF TALK ABOUT A LIFE-BELT! 513

CHAPTER XLV.

OF CONRAD VEREKER'S REVISION OF PARADISE, AND OF FENWICK'S
HIGH FEVER. OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER WHO WAVERED AT BOMBAY,
AND OF FENWICK'S SURPRISE-BATH IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL. WHY
HE DID NOT SINK. THE "ELLEN JANE" OF ST. SENNANS. ONLY
SALLY IS IN THE WATER STILL. MORE BOATS. FOUND! 524

CHAPTER XLVI.

AN ERRAND IN VAIN, AND HOW DR. CONRAD CAME TO KNOW.
CONCERNING LLOYD'S COFFEE-HOUSE, AND THE BATTLE OF
CAMPERDOWN. MARSHALL HALL'S SYSTEM AND SILVESTER'S. SOCIAL
DISADVANTAGES. A CHAT WITH A CENTENARIAN, AND HOW ROSALIND
CAME TO KNOW. THOMAS LOCOCK OF ROCHESTER. ONE O'CLOCK! 531

CHAPTER XLVII.

WAS IT THE LITTLE GALVANIC BATTERY? THE LAST CHAPTER RETOLD
BY THE PRESS. A PROPER RAILING. BUT THEY _WEREN'T_ DROWNED.
WHAT'S THE FUSS? MASTER CHANCELLORSHIP APPEARS AND VANISHES.
ELECTUARY OF ST. SENNA. AT GEORGIANA TERRACE. A LETTER FROM
SALLY. ANOTHER FROM CONRAD. EVERYTHING VANISHES! 554

SOMEHOW GOOD

SOMEHOW GOOD

CHAPTER I

A RETURNED TRAVELLER. NEMESIS IN LIVERMORE'S RENTS, 1808. EXTRAVAGANCE,
AND NO CASH. A PAWNED WATCH, AND A RESIDUUM OF FOURPENCE

An exceptionally well-built man in a blue serge suit walked into a
bank in the City, and, handing his card across the counter, asked if
credit had been wired for him from New York. The clerk to whom he
spoke would inquire.

As he leaned on the counter, waiting for the reply, his appearance was
that of a man just off a sea voyage, wearing a suit of clothes well
knocked about in a short time, but quite untainted by London dirt. His
get-up conveyed no information about his social position or means. His
garments had been made for him; that was all that could be said. That
is something to know. But it leaves the question open whether their
wearer is really only a person in decent circumstances--_one_ decent
circumstance, at any rate--or a Duke.

The trustworthy young gentleman in spectacles who came back from an
authority in the bush to tell him that no credit had been wired so
far, did not seem to find any difficulty in affecting confidence that
the ultimate advent of this wire was an intrinsic certainty, like
the post. Scarcely, perhaps, the respectable c