Just above my head was an open window with a tolerably stout branch extending right across it . `` Shall we try that way , William Adolphus ? '' I asked . William Adolphus , wasting no words , began to climb the tree . I followed his example . The dog ran in circles about the tree and looked things not lawful to be uttered . It probably would have been a relief to him to bark if it had n't been so against his principles . I got in by the window easily enough , and found myself in a bedroom the like of which for disorder and dust and general awfulness I had never seen in all my life . But I did not pause to take in details . With William Adolphus under my arm I marched downstairs , fervently hoping I should meet no one on the way . I did not . The hall below was empty and dusty . I opened the first door I came to and walked boldly in . A man was sitting by the window , looking moodily out . I should have known him for Alexander Abraham anywhere . He had just the same uncared-for , ragged appearance that the house had ; and yet , like the house , it seemed that he would not be bad looking if he were trimmed up a little . His hair looked as if it had never been combed , and his whiskers were wild in the extreme . He looked at me with blank amazement in his countenance . `` Where is Jimmy Spencer ? '' I demanded .
`` I have come XXXXX see him . ''
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