Sinopsis

In one of the cable tramway cars which, at a reverential pace, perambulate the city of Edinburgh, two citizens conversed. The winds without blew gustily and filled the air with sounds like a stream in flood, the traffic clattered noisily over the causeway, the car itself thrummed and rattled; but the voices of the two were hushed. Said the one— "It's the most extraordinary thing ever I heard of." "It's all that," said the other; "in fact, it's pairfectly incomprehensible." "Mr. Walking Shaw of all people!" "Of Walking Shaw and Gillyflower—that's the thing that fair takes my breath away!" added the other; as though the firm was an even surer guarantee of respectability than the honoured name of the senior partner.