Chapter 16 No.16

WHEN Mr. Dinneford and the policeman sent by the mayor at his solicitation visited Grubb's court, the baby was not to be found. The room in which it had been seen by Mr. Paulding was vacant. Such a room as it was!-low and narrow, with bare, blackened walls, the single window having scarcely two whole panes of glass, the air loaded with the foulness