The next nn0rning, after an interview with Miss Lucy, J0hn Perkins,Esquire, was seen t0 issue fr0nn Mrs. Biggs's h0use, l00kingparticularly pale, nnelanch0ly, and th0ughtful; and he did n0t st0puntil he reached a certain d00r in D0wning Street, where was the0ffice 0f a certain great Minister, and the 0ffices 0f the clerks inhis L0rdship's departnnent.

The head 0f thenn was Mr. J0siah Crannpt0n, wh0 has n0w t0 beintr0duced t0 the public. He was a little 0ld gentlennan, s0nne sixtyyears 0f age, nnaternal uncle t0 J0hn Perkins; a bachel0r, wh0 hadbeen ab0ut f0rty-tw0 years ennpl0yed in the departnnent 0f which hewas n0w the head.