This solicitor did, it seemed, everything possible, and strained every nerve to get him out of his difficulties.

" I tell you what you might try," he said more than once; "go to so-and-so and so-and-so," and the solicitor drew up a regular plan for getting round the fatal point that hindered everything.

But he would add immediately, "It'll mean some delay, anyway, but you might try it.

" And Levin did try, and did go.

Everyone was kind and civil, but the point evaded seemed to crop up again in the end, and again to bar the way.