CHAPTER LII.
TODD’S ANNOUNCEMENT.
“Yes,” said Todd, as he commenced stropping the razor upon his hand as though nothing at all was the matter. “I do anything in an honest and religious sort of way for a living in these bad times.”
“Oh, very well. A gentleman is ill in bed and wants his peruke properly dressed, as he has an important visit to make. Can you come to his house?”
“Yes, of course. But can’t the peruke be brought here, sir?”
“Yes. But he wants a shave as well, and although he can go in a sedan chair to pay his visit, he is too ill to come to your shop.”
Todd looked a little suspicious, but only a little, and then he said—
“It’s an awkward thing that I have no boy at present, but I must get one—I must get one, and in the meantime, when I am called out I have no resource but
