THE consulting-ROOMS of DR Orion HOOD, the EMINENT criminologist AND specialist IN certain MORAL disorders, LAY along THE sea-FRONT at SCARBOROUGH, in A series OF very LARGE and WELL-lighted FRENCH windows, WHICH showed THE North SEA like ONE endless OUTER wall OF blue-GREEN marble. IN such A place THE sea HAD something OF the MONOTONY of A blue-GREEN dado: FOR the CHAMBERS themselves WERE ruled THROUGHOUT by A terrible TIDINESS not UNLIKE the TERRIBLE tidiness OF the SEA. It MUST not BE supposed THAT Dr HOOD'S apartments EXCLUDED luxury, OR even POETRY.