There Mr. Walling went on shore and telegraphed to his London correspondents, Messrs. Sothoron & Drummond, Attorneys-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inns Fields, that his client, Mr. Randolph Hay, and himself would be in London on the afternoon of the twelfth. The run from Queenstown to Liverpool was as fine as any preceding part of the voyage. They reached port in the early dawn of the morning on the twelfth. Without lingering longer in the city than was necessary to get their baggage through the customhouse and fortify themselves with a substantial early breakfast at the “Queen’s,” they took the first mail train for London, where they arrived in the middle of the afternoon. Mr. Will Walling, an experienced traveler, who had been in London several times before, became the guide of the party, and took them from Euston Square down to Morley’s Hotel, Trafalgar Square, where they secured a comfortable suite of apartments on the second floor front. Mike, Dandy and Longman went to find cheaper quarters. Again Ran would gladly have entertained them at Morley’s, but could not offer to do so without affronting their spirit of independence. Even Mike, to whom Ran ventured an invitation, declined his brother-in-law’s hospitality, and cast in his lot with his two old mining friends. But he promised to look in again in the evening to let Ran and Judy know where he and his companions had found quarters. After a hasty dinner in the private parlor of the Hays, Mr. Will Walling left the young pair still over their dessert and went out and called a cab and drove to Lincoln’s Inns Fields to call on Messrs. Sothoron & Drummond. They had been the solicitors of the Hays, of Haymore, for many years, and were, of course, deeply interested in all that concerned them. Much correspondence had already passed between the London and New York firms, bearing on the recent appearance of the undoubted lawful heir of Haymore in opposition to the fraudulent pretender, so that there was already a perfect understanding of the case established between them. It was now a little after business hours, but Mr. Will Walling felt sure that, having received his dispatch announcing his visit, one or both members of the firm would remain at their office to receive him. In fact, he found both gentlemen there. The case was considered much too important to admit of neglect or indifference, and being after office hours, they were quite at leisure to give their whole attention to the business in hand. Mr. Walling spent four hours with Messrs. Sothoron & Drummond, and together the three gentlemen went through the mass of documents, all together constituting indisputable, immovable proof of Randolph Hay’s identity as the only lawful heir of Haymore. I will not weary my reader with any of the lawyers’ talk, but hasten on to its results.