CHAPTER XXXII

SOME DESCRIPTION OF GILES' RENTS, MR. SHRIG AND AN ACTOR The men were behind him--still three vague shapes flitting amid the shadows--for among these noisome lanes and narrow alleys night gloomed already; and within this thickening dusk sinister figures moved, furtive, slipshod men and slatternly women, who peered at him with eyes that scowled or leered with nameless evil. A bad place by day, an unsavoury place at any time, but at such hour as this, surely a place of danger for the unwary or too confiding stranger…