Chapter 18

_Enter HUMPHRY and NEGRO with a trunk._

HUMPHRY. This here is the house, I warrant you;--these crooked figures is enough for to puzzle a lawyer.--He said number two hundred and twenty-one:--two two's and a one stands for that, and there it is. [_Knocks,--SERVANT comes out._] Does one Mr. Frankton live here, pray?

SERVANT. No;--he is here pretty often though, and I expect he will live here altogether, by and by.

HUMPHRY. Aye, I suppose he's only a lodger;--yes, this must be the place.

SERVANT. 'Tis not the place you want, I believe.--Mr. Airy lives here.

HUMPHRY. Mr. Airy! Aye, aye, now I've got it.--Here, Mr. What-d'ye-call'um, will you please to tell Miss Mary, somebody wants for to speak to her. [_Exit SERVANT._] Now I've found out the mistake;--since I told him how the old man was a going for to marry him to Miss Mary, he thought he must obey the old fellow, for fear he shou'dn't let him have any of his money, and she's got a swinging fortune, they say; so he sent the trunk to her.--But what shou'd he tell me to take it to Mr. Frankton's for?--Why I suppose he thought I should find him here, for the man says he's here very often:--and then the number on the door; why, that settles the matter at once,--there can't be two numbers alike, in the same street, sartainly:--Yes, he's made one of his old blunders.

_SERVANT returns._

SERVANT. Please to walk in, sir.

HUMPHRY. Aye, aye;--here, master Cuffy, this way.

[_They go in._