Chapter Six
I’d been askin’ around about Wodebean. Used to be, his name was a byword fer hard-to-get goods, mayhap veerin’ in the illegal direction. But that was years ago. Seein’ as I hadn’t heard a word o’ news about him in such a long time, imagine my surprise to find he was still about — an’ not far from my own Tilby, either! Keeps hisself to hisself, that’s fer sure. What brought him out o’ hidin’ all on a sudden, that’s what I wanted to know.
As fer Ilsevel, I was gettin’ some suspicions as to her nature. If I was right, well… her and her sister in the same place was goin’ t’ kick up a fine ruckus, no doubt about that.
I decided it was mebbe time fer me to pay a visit t’ the city meself…
At some indeterminate hour upon the following day, when Phineas had been so long closeted in
