Chapter 21 NEW HORIZONS

When Ishmael laid his aching head upon the pillow one night a week later in the Tavistock Square house of Mr. Alderman Killigrew it carried within a whirl of impressions so confused that days would have been needed in which to sort them out. London-the London of the 'sixties-noisy with hoofs and iron-bound wheels upon its cobbles and macadam, dark