long in serving papers, copying summonses, and searching title-deeds.
In this lawyer's office he develops traits altogether foreign to his
nature. He even becomes a quidnunc, prying now and then into the
personal affairs of his superiors. Ay, and he dares once to suggest to
his employer a new method of dealing with the criminals among his
clients. Withal, Khalid is slow, slower than the law itself. If he
goes out to serve a summons he does not return for a day. If he is
sent to search title-deeds, he does not show up in the office for a
week. And often he would lose himself in the Park surrounding the
Register's Office, pondering on his theory of immanent morality. He
would sit down on one of those benches, which are the anchors of
loafers of another type, his batch of papers beside him, and watch the
mad crowds coming and going, running, as it were, between two fires.
These puckered people are the living, moving chambers of sleeping
souls.

Khalid was always glad to come to this Register's Office. For though
the searching of title-deeds be a mortal process, the loafing margin
of the working hour could be extended imperceptibly, and without
hazarding his or his employer's interest. The following piece of
speculative fantasy and insight must have been thought out when he
should have been searching title-deeds.

"This Register's Office," it is written in the K. L. MS., "is the very
bulwark of Society. It is the foundation on which the Trust Companies,
the Courts, and the Prisons are reared. Your codes are blind without
the miraculous torches which this Office can light. Your judges can
not propound the 'laur'--I beg your pardon, the law--without the aid
of these musty, smelling, dilapidated tomes. Ay, these are the very
constables of the realm, and without them there can be no realm, no
legislators, and no judges. Strong, club-bearing constables, these
Liebers, standing on the boundary lines, keeping peace between
brothers and neighbours.

"Here, in these Liebers is an authority which never fails, never
dies--an authority which willy-nilly we obey and in which we place
unbounded trust. In any one of these Registers is a potentiality which
can always worst the quibbles and quiddities of lawyers and ward off
the miserable technicalities of the law. Any of them, when called
upon, can go into court and dictate to the litigants and the
attorneys, the jury and the judge. They are the deceased witnesses
come to life. And w