Excerpt from Passing of the Third Floor Back

The daylight was fading. The stranger, finding it impossible to read the name of the street upon the corner house, turned back.

Why, 'tis a young man, the con stable told himself, a mere boy.

I beg your pardon, said the stranger, but would you mind telling me my way to Bloomsbury Square.

This is Bloomsbury Square, ex~ plained the constable, leastways round the corner is. What number might you be wanting?

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