'"Very good," said the attorney. "Will you write down instructions for the officer?
'"No; let him meet me here, at eight in the evening,and I will accompany him myself."
'They met on the appointed night, and, hiring a hackney-coach, directed the driver to stop at that corner of the old Pancras Road, at which stands the parish workhouse. By the time they alighted there, it was quite dark; and, proceeding by the dead wall in front of the Veterinary Hospital, they entered a small by-street, which is, or was at that time, called Little College Street, and which, whatever it may be now,was in those days a desolate place enough, surrounded by little else than fields and ditches.