they wanted but like the unanimous resolution of a public meeting which will declare that this or that grievance is not to be borne a moment longer which is nevertheless borne for a century or two afterwards without any they only reached in this the conclusion that they were all of one mind for it was one thing to want mr and another thing to get at him and to do that without alarming him or without alarming or without being by the difficulty of striking in an instrument so out of tune and so unused the note they sought was an end as far from their reach as ever the question then became who of those about the old clerk had had most influence with him that night tom said his young mistress clearly but tom and all of them shrank from the thought of her and making her the innocent means of bringing on her cruel husband was there nobody else why yes in a very different way tom said he was influenced by mrs the nurse who had once had the control of him as he understood for some time they caught at this immediately here was a new way out developed in a quarter until then overlooked john knew mrs he had given her employment he was acquainted with her place of residence for that good lady had furnished him at parting with a pack of her professional cards for general distribution it was decided that mrs should be approached with caution but approached without delay and that the depths of that discreet matron s knowledge of mr and means of bringing them or one of them into communication with him should be carefully sounded on this service martin and john determined to proceed that night waiting on mrs first at her lodgings and taking their chance of finding her in the repose of private life or of having to seek her out elsewhere in the exercise of her professional duties tom returned home that he might lose no opportunity of having an interview with by being absent in the event of his and mr remained by his own particular desire for the time being in inn to look after who might safely have been left to himself however for any thought he seemed to entertain of giving them the slip before they parted on their several errands they caused him to read aloud in the presence of them all the paper which he had about him and the declaration he had attached to it which was to the effect that he had written it voluntarily in the fear of death and in the torture of his mind and when he had done so they all signed it and taking it from him of his free will locked it in a place of safety martin also wrote by john s advice a letter to the of the famous grammar school boldly claiming the successful design as his and charging mr with the fraud he had committed in this proceeding also john was hotly interested observing with his usual that mr life and had been a successful rascal all his life through and that it would be a lasting source of happiness to him john if he could help to do him justice in the smallest particular a busy day but martin had no lodgings yet so when these matters were disposed of he excused himself from dining with john and was fain to wander out alone and look for some he succeeded after great trouble in engaging two for himself and mark situated in a court in the strand not far from temple bar their luggage which was waiting for them at a coach office he conveyed to this new place of refuge and it was with a glow of satisfaction which as a selfish man he never could have known and never had that thinking how much pains and trouble he had saved mark and how pleased and astonished mark would be he afterwards walked up and down in the temple eating a meat pie for his dinner t chapter in which mrs assisted by a is the cause of a division between friends s apartment in street high wore speaking a robe of state it was swept and for the reception of a visitor that visitor was mrs of s or as some said s or as some said s for by all these and familiar had the hospital of saint become a household word among the which adorned mrs s apartment was not a spacious one but to a contented mind a closet is a palace and the first floor front at mr s may have been in the imagination of mrs a stately pile if it were not exactly that to restless it at least as much accommodation as any person not sanguine to insanity could have looked for in a room of its dimensions for only keep the always in your mind and you were safe that was the grand secret remembering the you might even stoop to look under the little round table for anything you had dropped without yourself much against the chest of drawers or as a patient of saint by falling into the fire visitors were much assisted in their cautious efforts to preserve an recollection of this piece of furniture by its size which was great it was not a turn up nor yet a french nor yet a four post but what is called a tent the whereof was low and that mrs s box would not go under it but stopped way in a manner which while it did violence to the reason likewise the legs of a stranger the frame too which would have supported the and if there had been any was ornamented life and adventures of with divers carved in timber which on the slightest provocation and frequently on none at 