"Look here, old fellow," said Morris, "it is a capital idea to
have all ready in case we want to go horse backing, but don't you
think that one of your snappy carriages with its heraldic
adornments in a byway of Walworth or Mile End would attract too
much attention for our purpose? It seems to me that we ought to
take cabs when we go south or east. And even leave them somewhere
near the neighborhood we are going to."
"Friend Quincey is right!" said the Professor. "His head is what
you call in plane with the horizon. It is a difficult thing that we
go to do, and we do not want no peoples to watch us if so it
may."
Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to
see that the exigency of affairs was helping her to forget for a
time the terrible experience of the
