CHAPTER LXII.
TODD CLEARS OFF CIRCUMSTANCES.
The arrangement come to between Todd and his visitor seemed to give equal satisfaction to both, and Mr. Peter, if he had what the phrenologists call an organ of caution at all developed, must have had acquisitiveness so large as completely to overpower its action at the present time. The idea of getting from Todd’s fears a sum of money at once, and from Fogg’s fears a regular small annuity, was to him a most felicitous combination of circumstances, and his reflections upon the pleasant consequences resulting therefrom had such full possession of him, that his scruples vanished, and as he followed Todd into the back parlour from the shop, he muttered to himself—
“I’ll try and get enough out of him to open a public-house.”
Todd heard the wish,
