"Yes; it is from Mrs. Middleton. She wants you to come to the hotel at once. But, my friend, if you will excuse the suggestion, I would advise you, since you are about to call upon a lady, to put on a better suit of clothes."
The tramp scowled at the hint.
"How am I to do it," he demanded roughly, "when these are all the clothes I have?"
The lawyer whistled.
"A pretty looking figure to call upon a lady at a fashionable hotel!" he thought.
"You must go as you are," he said. "Wait a minute."
He took a blank card and wrote upon it the name:
Rudolph Rugg.
"When you reach the hotel," he said, "inquire for Mrs. Middleton, and send that card up to her."
"Very well, sir."