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Big Bẹn has just struck one, and the morning is an hour old. Westminster is nearly deserted. There are stilla few caba and motor-cars and mayhap za omnibus
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But there is one spot where there is still life. Outside the great Abbey a small crowd is gathered round a coffee-stall. It is a mixed gathering. The poor beggar who has sold enough matches to buy door-stop and a cut" rubs shoulders with the main evening dress. By the side of the stall stands a young man who keeps up a regular fusillade of witty remarks. He is shahily dressed, bus he is very merry, and it is not long. be for the n in evening dress atards
him cup of coffee. The police.
17 on the boat tells me that. this
fellow lives by his tongue. He gets into conversation with the patrons of the stall, and they invariably ask him "to jola thema." This is good for him and good for the Stall-keeper, who rewards hiny with a packet of cigarettes. And so he exists."
We return to the square; the chimes from Big Bonannounce that inother half-hour is more audiblo" than ever. At length Ce stills of die night is broken by a Foster. It is not the inbourer going to werk; it is too early for him and the step 18 too light. The pitter-palter on the echoing pavement le too quick for the policeman or the postman. The little foot belong to a wee mite of s girl. She has come over the bridge from the slums on the other side of the water. Sho-turns into Whitehall and faces the wide, and solitary thoroughfare. Perchancs a micer- Hthe obese Company, wo shell be Eubanktont rests shuffles past her, hot JAVING been appointed AGENTS forable being who has been turned off the cleared to give any information as to rates
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Once again everything is quiet. The only living soul to whom I can talk is the policeman. Instinct seems to tell him that the inspector is on his rounds, and he leaves the donway that shelter hun from wind and cold and perhaps rain, for even in these spring mornings it is very cold." With measured trend he walks down Parlia- moni-street, mechanically tryine gates and locks as he guitches his bull's-eye on them. A few yards ahead of us stands a man, a
OUR attention has been called man so dirty, so poorly clad, that his very
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