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He had plenty of money, and spent it freely; but it was generally felt that there was too much of the light-hearted savage about him to fit him to live among quiet people. How much longer the landlord would have stood this sort of thing, Hewitt's informant said, was a matter of conjecture, for on the Saturday afternoon in question the tenancy had come to a startling full-stop.
Therefore I need only remind my readers that my bachelor chambers were, during most of my acquaintance with Hewitt, in the old building near the Strand, in which Hewitt's office stood at the top of the first flight of stairs; where the plain ground-glass of the door bore as inscription the single word "Hewitt," and the sharp lad, Kerrett, first received visitors in the outer office.
What do you mean about poor Tennyson? I heard of him last on his return from a visit to the Swiss mountains, which 'disappointed him, he was said to say. Very wrong, either of mountains or poet! Tell me if you make acquaintance with Mrs. Hewitt's new ballads. Mrs. Jameson is engaged in a work on art which will be very interesting.... Flush's love to your Flopsy.
Nobody could appear more cordial or less observant in manner, although there was to be seen a certain sharpness of the eye which might, after all, only be the twinkle of good humor. I did think it worth while to write something of Martin Hewitt's investigations, and a description of one of his adventures follows.
The last light, straggling under the trees, fell on a brilliantly sparkling object within, and like a flash Hewitt's hand shot over Wilks' shoulder and snatched the jewel. The man actually screamed one of those curious sharp little screams that one may hear from a woman very suddenly alarmed.
Plummer produced the case, which he had in his coat-tail pocket, for Hewitt's inspection. "I don't see anything particular about it; do you?" he said. "It shows us the way they went, though, being found just here." "Well, yes," Hewitt said; "if we kept on in this direction, we should be going toward Mr. Woollett's house, and his trap-door, shouldn't we!"
I had to be at my office between eight and nine, and to keep Hewitt's appointment I should probably have to sacrifice my dinner. But I was particularly curious to know the meaning of that cypher, and just as curious to know how it could be read; and, moreover, I knew that any case that Hewitt called interesting would probably be interesting above the common. So I took my hat and sought a cab.
There were others in the form of upright chambers or flues, made of metal, and painted the same colour as the walls about them. They rose from the floor in corners and wall angles, and could be shut or opened by means of lids over their upper ends. These were more to Hewitt's mind, and he went about from one to another, groping under the lids, and poking down into the flues with a walking-stick.
I myself first made his acquaintance as a result of an accident resulting in a fire at the old house in which Hewitt's office was situated, and in an upper floor of which I occupied bachelor chambers.
We joined Plummer at once I have already spoken of Plummer in my accounts of several of Hewitt's cases in which I met him and we all turned into the office next door. There we found a very frightened and bewildered office boy, whom Denson had given a holiday yesterday, after sending him down to Samuel.
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