When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. They heard his footsteps descending the stone staircase, growing fainter and fainter. “Two days’ notice shall be sufficient on either side. For when this Joan said it, I had a memory. She was dropped off at 2:30 at Whitefield Park, a huge extravagantly lit field in the new part of town. "What was it?" He was insistent. Immediately beneath her lay Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. "I was only commenting. He misstated her age and address; but you can’t get home on him for a thing like that. McClintock was amused.
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