But in time I became so proficient that I could completely destroy more than one of these six-by-eight-foot druggets in a single night.

At first, until I acquired the destructive knack, the tearing of one drugget into strips was a task of four or five hours.

Yet now cheap druggets to a mode are grown, And a plain suit, since we can make but one, 10 Is better than to be by tarnish'd gawdry known.

"It's an infernally baffling case," muttered Rolfe, refilling his pipe from a tin of tobacco on the mantelpiece, and walking up and down the cheap lodging-house drugget with rapid strides.