They wended their way up the Old Bailey, turned into Newgate Street, and thence proceeded down Butcher-hall Lane towards Bartholomew Close; for in that large dreary Square did Mr. Chichester now occupy a cheap lodging. This lodging consisted of a couple of small and ill-furnished rooms on the second floor. When the two gentlemen arrived there, it was past five o'clock--for the trial had lasted the entire day; and a dirty cloth was laid for dinner in the front apartment. Black-handled knives and forks, a japanned pepper-box, pewter saltcellar and mustard pot, and common white plates with a blue edge, constituted the "service." The dinner itself was equally humble--consisting of mutton-chops and potatoes, flanked by a pot of porter. The baronet and the fashionable gentleman took their seats in silence, and partook of the meal without much appetite. There was a damp upon their spirits: they were not so utterly depraved as to be altogether unmindful of the detestable part they had played towards Markham; and their own affairs were moreover in a desperate condition. A slip-shod, dirty, familiar girl cleared away the dinner things; and the gentlemen then took to gin-and-water and cigars. For some minutes they smoked in silence; till at length the baronet, stamping his foot impatiently upon the floor, exclaimed, "My God! Chichester, is nothing to be done?" "I really don't know," answered that individual. "You heard how deucedly I got exposed to-day in the witness-box; and after that I should not dare show up at the west-end for weeks and months to come--even if the sheriff's officers weren't looking out for me." "Well, something must be done," observed the baronet. "Here am I, playing at hide-and-seek as well as you--all my horses sold--my furniture seized--my carriages made away with--my plate pawned--and not a guinea--not a guinea left!" "What should you say to a trip into the country?" demanded Chichester, after a pause. "London is too hot for both of us--at least for the present; indeed my surprise is that we were not arrested on those infernal bills, coming out of the court. But, as I was saying--a trip into the country might do more good. To be sure, this is no time for the watering places: we might, however, pay a visit to Hastings, Bath, and Cheltenham on a venture." "And what could we do for ourselves there?" "Why--pick up flats, to be sure!" "You know, Chichester, that I am not able to work the cards and dice as you can." "Then you must learn, as I did." "And who will teach me?" "Why--myself, to be sure! Could you have a better master than Arthur Chichester?" "But it would take so long to understand all these manoeuvres--I should never have the patience." "Oh! nonsense, Harborough. Come--what do you say? Three days' practice, and we will be off?" "But the money--the funds to move with?" cried the baronet, impatiently. "I am literally reduced to my last guinea."