Chapter 19

"Very well, sir!" replied he with a tone of relief, and hurried away.

I took the visitor to the little bedroom across the hall, and when we went he asked me:

"Are you the secretary?"

"No! I'm a friend of Miss Trelawney's, and my name is Ross."

He said. "Thank you very much, Mr. Ross, for your kindness! My name is Corbeck, I'll give you my card, but they don't use the cards I came from. And if I had any, I suppose they, too, would have gone last night."

At the same time, in another place far from Miss Trelawney's house, there was a scholar of Egyptian antiquities, John Van Stewart Smith, a young man of great energy and many talents who lived in Gower Street and was distinguished by the clarity of his thinking, and this placed him in the first place among the scholars, Despite this, he was a victim of his ambition, which prompted him to seek excellence in many fields instead of excelling in