room � adjusted the glasses on the brushed a place that was not dusty rubbed his hands very hard walked stealthily to the door and there was evidently something in the contents of the letter of a nature if not wholly unexpected the great disagreeable mr alexander laid it down and took it up again and walked about the room on particular squares of the carpet and even attempted though to whistle an air it wouldn t do he threw himself into a chair and read the following aloud � blue lion and stomach warmer great wednesday morning sir � immediately on discovering your intentions i left our counting house and followed you i know the purport of your journey � that journey shall never be completed i have no friend here just now on whose secrecy i can rely this shall be no obstacle to my revenge neither shall brown be exposed to the of a scoundrel odious in her eyes and contemptible in everybody else s nor will i submit to the attacks of a base umbrella maker sir from great church a leads through four meadows to a retired spot known to the towns people as s acre mr shuddered i shall be waiting there alone at twenty minutes before six o clock to morrow morning should i be disappointed in seeing you there i will do myself the pleasure of calling with a hunter there is a s in the high street and they won t sell after dark � you understand me you had better not order your breakfast in sketches bt the morning until yoa have met me it may be an unnecessary expense desperate minded villain i knew how it would ejaculated the terrified � i always told father that once start me on this expedition and hunter would pursue me like the wandering jew it s bad enough as it is to marry with the old people s commands and without the consent but what will i think of me if i go down there breathless with i running away from this infernal what shall i do what can i do if i go back to the city i m disgraced forever � lose the girl � and what s more lose the money too even if i did go on to the by the coach hunter would be after me in a post chaise and if i go to this place this s acre another shudder i m as good as dead i ve seen him the man at the pall shooting gallery in the second button hole of the waistcoat five times out of every six and when he didn t hit him there he hit him in the head with this mr alexander again ejaculated what shall i do long and weary were his reflections as burying his face in his hands he sat on the best course to be pursued his mental direction post pointed to london he thought of the governor s anger and the loss of the fortune which the paternal brown had promised the paternal his daughter should contribute to the of his son then the words to brown s were inscribed on the said direction post but hunter s rung in his ears � last of all it bore in red letters the words � to s the great acre and then mr alexander decided on a plan which he presently first and foremost he despatched the under boots to the blue lion and stomach warmer with a gentlemanly note to mr hunter that he for his destruction and would do himself the pleasure of him next morning without fail he then wrote another letter and requested the attendance of the other boots � for they kept a pair a modest knock at the room door was heard come in said mr a man thrust in a red head with one eye in ity and being again desired to come in brought in the body and the legs to which the head belonged and a fur cap which belonged to the head you are the upper boots i think inquired mr yes i am the upper boots replied a voice from inside a case with mother of pearl buttons � that is i m the boots as to the house the other man s my man as goes errands and does odd top boots and half boots i calls us you re from london inquired mr a cab once was the reply why don t you drive it now asked mr over the cab and over a replied the top boots with do you know the mayor s house inquired rather replied the boots significantly as if he had some good reason to remember it do you think you could manage to leave a letter there shouldn t wonder responded boots but this letter said holding a note sketches bt with a direction in one hand and in the other � this letter is a � what interrupted the � he s not to know who it comes from oh i i see responded the lar with a knowing wink but without the slightest to undertake the charge � i see � bit o eh and his one eye wandered round the room as if in quest of a dark lantern and box but i he continued recalling the eye from its search and bringing it to bear on mr i say he s a lawyer our mayor and in the if you ve a spite him you d better not bum his house down � blessed if i don t think it would be the greatest favor you could do him and he chuckled inwardly if mr alexander had been in any other situation his first act would have been to kick the man downstairs by or in other words to ring the bell and desire the landlord to take his boots off 