"LET HIM SERVE IT AT ONCE, THEN."
"Let him serve it at once, then," said Robert. "I can not pay now."
CHAPTER XXIII.
Mr. Pagebrook Takes a Lesson in the Law.
As Robert was unable to give bail without calling upon his friend Dudley, which he determined not to do in any case, he was taken to the jail and locked up. Upon his arrival there he employed a messenger to carry a note to a young lawyer with whom he happened to be slightly acquainted, asking him to come to the jail at once. When he arrived Robert said to him: