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AT THE TIDAL TRAIN.265and told him there weren't no answer. You mustunderstand," saidJim, yvho had regainedhis composurenoyv,andyvasin thefull tide ofhis discourse,which he addressed exclusively to Mr. Lowther,with the instinctive delicacy wliich Harriet Routhhad once observedin the neglected boy, " asIwasnot to say he was there,Iweremerely to give thenote.He giv' me sixpence, and he yvent awaydoyvn the Strand. Igot ahorse-holdin' job justthen, and it werealong 'un; and there1wasyvhenthe two gents came to the door, a-smokin' theircigars, and then the gent asIheld his horse tookhim from me, andIhadn't nothing better to dothan follow them, whichIdid; for yvho shouldIsee but Mr.Routh a-skulkin' along the other sideof the Strand, asifhe wanted to keep 'emin sightwithout their seein' of him. Ifollered them, sir,and follered them feelin' as ifIwas one of them'ere yvild Ingins in the 'Alfpenny ,Alf-hours on atrail,untilIfollered them toBoyle's billiard-rooms,asIknoyvs it well, and had swep it often on aSunday mornin'. They went in, andIwas tiredofhanging about, and was goin' away, whenIseeMr. Routh again: there w-eren't nobody in the