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After leaving Mr. Lindsay's house, Mr. Beattie went first of all to the Law Courts in the Strand. But he did not remain there long. He took the draft affidavit to a law stationer's, and then, leaving instructions for Alec with the junior clerk who had been waiting in the Judge's chambers, he left the case Walter v. Walter to take care of itself, called a hansom, and told the cabman to drive to King's Cross. Arrived there, he dismissed the cab, and plunged into a nest of squalid, airless streets, not far from the railway terminus.
After some difficulty, he found the one he was in quest of -- Milton Street -- and then a further search ensued for No. 76. When this, too, was found, he made some further inquiries, and, obeying the directions he obtained, made his way to the top of the house, and knocked with his umbrella at a rickety door.