by Herbert C. Sargent.
Played by The London Radio Repertory Players

In Ezekiel Meggs' sitting-room, a bare, cheerless apartment giving an impression of extreme poverty, a very small fire is burning. At the back of the room, which is lighted by one candle, there is a glazed partition through which his shop can be seen. Meggs, a small, wizened man of about forty, is sitting at the table casting up figures in a ledger.