'Where have I seen you before?'
'Ask yourself.'
'Who are you?'
The dwarf made a low bow. 'I am an Appanage of Royalty!' said he.
'Then it was you who brought the King's silk stocking to be washed! But were you not a great deal taller then than now?'
'What of that? Were not you a great deal shorter?'
'That is true,' murmured Raymond, struck by the justness of the remark.
'True as gold!' added the dwarf, with another chuckle. 'And so you want to go to London?' he continued suddenly.
Raymond started. 'I have been thinking of it,' he said; 'but now——'
'Nonsense! You want to go now as much as before you went to the Brindled Cow, and I am the only person in the world that can help you do it.'