"Heard wot?" ses Ginger. "I haven't 'card any-thing. I've been indoors
with a bad cold all the week."

"Webson and Julia Tucker was married at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning," ses Bill Lumm, in a hoarse voice. "When I think of the way
I've been done, and wot I've suffered, I feel 'arf crazy. He won a
'undered pounds through me, and then got the gal I let myself be
disgraced for. I 'ad an idea some time ago that he'd got 'is eye on
her."

Ginger Dick didn't answer 'im a word. He staggered back and braced
'imself up agin the wall for a bit, and arter staring at Bill Lumm in a
wild way for pretty near three minutes he crawled back to 'is lodgings
and went straight to bed agin.